Ignazio Silone quotes:

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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