Famous Ignazio Silone Quotes

  • Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. – Ignazio Silone

    Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.– Ignazio Silone

  • How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience. – Ignazio Silone

    How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.– 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 of his own soul. – 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 of his own soul.– Ignazio Silone

  • 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

    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