Bread and Wine Quotes

“How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.”
― Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine

“Awareness has infinite gradations, like light.”
― Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine

“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, Bread and Wine

“Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.”
― Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine

“«In ogni tempo e in qualunque società l’atto supremo dell’anima è di darsi, di perdersi per trovarsi. Si ha solo quello che si dona.»”
― Ignazio Silone, Vino e pane

“Politics is a luxury reserved for the well-fed.”
― Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine