Silone Quotes

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

Ignazio Silone

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

Ignazio Silone

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

Ignazio Silone

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

Ignazio Silone

#5. I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.

Manny Montana

#6. Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.

Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

#7. There's a fine line between piety and wack-ass obsession, and people have been landing on the wrong side for thousands of years.

Jennifer Traig

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

Ignazio Silone

#9. Why are we rebuilding New Orleans? Whose idea was this, Aquaman?

Carlos Mencia

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. The way black women say "girl" can be magical. Frankly, I have no solid beliefs about the survival of consciousness after physical death. But if it's going to happen I know what I want to see after my trek toward the light. I want to see a black woman who will smile and say, "Girl ...

Abigail Padgett

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

Ignazio Silone

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

Ignazio Silone

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

Ignazio Silone

#16. They should never be used together in a sentence, because they speak of something that's beyond your ability to change. A waste of energy. What's

Harper Bliss

#17. 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

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

Ignazio Silone

#19. 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

#20. If the truth is told how I want to be remembered ... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around.

Henry Rollins

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

Ignazio Silone

#22. Perhaps the greatest importance of the family, in these days of contraceptives, is that it preserves the habit of having children.

Bertrand Russell

#23. However, an artist is limited only by his own skill and imagination. He's in total control of his art. Whereas nature is the artist here, and I merely try to interpret and manage her design.

Crit Kincaid

#24. The Internet makes money for you when you build something that is real and when it matters to people!

Darren Rowse

#25. Yet most of the time that I'm awake, I want to cut. Not small words either. Equivocate. Inarticulate. Duplicitous. At my hospital back in Illinois they would not approve of this craving.

Gillian Flynn

#26. They're still a subject beholden to special interests, but at least they have a national constituency. At least they have to think about national majorities.

Mark Shields

#27. 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

#28. Before taking the stage, Paul Ryan spent 6 hours staring into a mirror working on 'concerned eyebrow.'

Damien Fahey

#29. Anyway, for whatever interest is to be derived therefrom. Bacon, Balthus, and Magritte are my three favourite painters, along with Dubuffet, of the whole post-impressionist period, by which I mean that before them Bonnard, Vuillard, & Seurat are my favourite painters of that time.

Edward Gorey

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

Ignazio Silone

#31. But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few hours.

Simon Sebag Montefiore