About Ignazio Silone: Ignazio Silone was the pseudonym of Secondino Tranquilli, an Italian author and politician.
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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.
Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture.
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.
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.
