Giuseppe Mazzini Quotes
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The family is the country of the heart.
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Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.
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The religion of humanity is love.
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The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come.
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Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them.
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Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.
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Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty of choosing, among the various modes of fulfilling duty, those most in harmony with our own tendencies.
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The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.
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A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
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Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.
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Good council has no price.
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The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life.
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Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you; say to the priests that you know God better than all of them together do, and that between God and His law you have no need of any intermediary. The people will understand you, and repeat with you: We believe in God the Father, who is Intelligence and Love, Creator and Teacher of Humanity. And in this saying you and the People will conquer.
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We form an association of brothers in all points of the globe ... yet there is one unseen that can hardly be felt, yet it weighs on us. Whence comes it? Where is it? No one knows ... or at least no one tells. This association is secret even to us the veterans of the Secret Societies.
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Labor is the divine law of our existence.
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Each of us brings with him an element, more or less important, of the life of humanity to come.
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Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.
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So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.
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No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.
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The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.
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To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.
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Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.
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Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.
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Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you . . .
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Art does not imitate, but interpret.
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A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.
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Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.
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Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
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The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.
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Shakespeare's personages live and move as if they had just come from the hand of God, with a life that, though manifold, is one, and, though complex, is harmonious.
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