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01Undated

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 / quote

02Undated

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 / quote

03Undated

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

Ignazio Silone / quote

04Undated

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

Ignazio Silone / quote

05Undated

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

Ignazio Silone / quote

06Undated

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

Ignazio Silone / quote