Life Quote by Ignazio Silone

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

— Ignazio Silone

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

— Ignazio Silone

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

— 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…

— Ignazio Silone

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

— Ignazio Silone

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

— Ignazio Silone

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

— Ignazio Silone

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…

— Ignazio Silone

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

— Ignazio Silone

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

— Ignazio Silone

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…

— Ignazio Silone

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

— Ignazio Silone