Achieve Quote by Ignazio Silone

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

Ignazio Silone

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

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

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

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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to…

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

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I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image…

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Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we have only one life and that we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day…

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

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“In provincia i segreti hanno vita breve. (In the countryside, secrets have a short lifespan).”

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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…

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

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

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