57 Quotes by Giuseppe Mazzini

Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.

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.

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.

Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.

A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.

Art does not imitate, but interpret. It searches out the idea lying dormant in the symbol, in order to present the symbol to men in such form as to enable them to penetrate through it to the idea. Were it otherwise, what would be the use or value of art?

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.