Ignazio Silone Quotes

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.

Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.

I believe everybody got the right to live their own life the way they want to.

You either respect people's liberties, or you don't.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

I am not a number, I am a free man!

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?

We’re not so free that we don’t have to listen to rules, and laws, and regulations. Those are important. But the spirit, the freedom of the spirit, that’s what I think of American Dream, that we are free here to do what we want to do, what we set out to do.

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.

I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.