Top 31 Ignazio Silone Quotes

#1. 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

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#2. The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)

Robert Reich

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#3. The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for it.

Rosamund Hodge

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#4. The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

Ignazio Silone

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#5. As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Ernest Hemingway,

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#6. 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

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#7. Sometimes, take a moment and ponder; yes, take a moment and stir your life just as you stir that delicious stew! Taste it to know how delicious or the otherwise it is! And if there be a need for a change, be swift and tactical.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#8. He is not a ghost; yet every nerve I have is unstrung: for a moment I am beyond my own mastery. What does it mean? I did not think I should tremble in this way when I saw him, or lose my voice or the power of motion in his presence.

Charlotte Bronte

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#9. The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

Robert Harris

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#10. There was nothing like the cold, heavy steel of a gun, the soft moan of an appreciative woman or the sharp burn of a good single malt to make a man grateful to be alive. Tonight, with his gun gone and his sex life a wasteland, Dash had to settle for whiskey.

Amy Andrews

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#11. Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

George Crabbe

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#12. A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.

Ignazio Silone

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#13. [Readers] are escaping from a narrow, limiting view of the world and journeying to a place where it is possible to experience a deeper connection to our real selves and to live fully in our world.

Duncan Smith

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#14. Not all love stories end happily. Sometimes they just end.

Ann Aguirre

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#15. 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

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#16. I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

Lisa Tuttle

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#17. To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

Ignazio Silone

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#18. There is a lack of economic and political motivation to defend life in the oceans. The profit is made by companies exploiting the oceans and they have the money to buy the politicians who make the laws.

Paul Watson

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#19. The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

Ignazio Silone

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

Ignazio Silone

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#21. Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

Ignazio Silone

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#22. In the countryside, secrets have a short lifespan

Ignazio Silone

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#23. 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

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#24. 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

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#25. Half of life is pretending. The other half is pretending.

Chris Campanioni

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#26. Sin is not just what the catechism says it is. Sin is not simply that which we commit. Sin is also what we desire but are too weak to do.

Sandor Marai

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#27. Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.

Ignazio Silone

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#28. A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger.

Jerry Stahl

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

Ignazio Silone

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

Ignazio Silone

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#31. No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.

Ignazio Silone

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