Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Ignazio Silone , original name Secondo Transqulli
Italian Novelist, Author and Politician
"Destiny is an invention of the cowardly and the resigned."
"Spiritual life and secure life do not go together. To save oneself one must struggle and take risks."
"An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all 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. "