Quotes by : Ignazio Silone

But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within....

On a group of theories one can found a school but on a group of values one can found a culture.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all....

How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries....

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization,....

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.