I Silone Quotes & Sayings

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

A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies. — John Malkovich

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it. — Ignazio Silone

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. — Margaret Thatcher

A veil of pretense can definitely conceal your dumbness but then it assures the proliferation of your dumbness instead of stagnating it by seeking knowledge from others. — Ayesha

I got very fit that week with all the running around that we di. I was always last, because I can't run as fast as everyone else. I'm useless at running. — Sarah Sutton

Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks. — Ignazio Silone

Although the reason for the existence of women is obvious enough, nobody has any real idea what point there is in being a man. Men have however, made many attempts to justify their existence. — Steve Jones

A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war. — Ignazio Silone

Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question. — Chloe Thurlow

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough. — Ignazio Silone

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place. — Ignazio Silone

In the countryside, secrets have a short lifespan — Ignazio Silone

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. — Ignazio Silone

The Italian novelist Ignazio Silone wrote about a revolutionary hunted by the police. In order to hide him, his comrades dressed him in the garb of a priest and sent him to a remote village in the foothills of the Alps. Word got out, and soon a long line of peasants appeared at his door, full of stories of their sins and broken lives. The "priest" protested and tried to turn them away, to no avail. He had no recourse but to sit and listen to the stories of people starving for grace. — Philip Yancey

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul. — Ignazio Silone

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture. — Ignazio Silone

Despite the aweful paparazzi drama that people seem to believe, i am still just like you ... i obsess over hot guys, get told what to do, and go to school. Believe what you want, but i am NORMAL ... whatever that means — Miley Cyrus

Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we only have one life and we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day that our real life will begin. And so life passes by. — Ignazio Silone

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying no to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political. — Ignazio Silone

No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old. — Ignazio Silone

But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free. — Ignazio Silone

The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists. — Ignazio Silone

The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else. — Ignazio Silone