We present you the 50 most important Giuseppe Mazzini quotes about patriotism, life, and faith. These quotes will help you to better understand the complex personality of one of the leaders of Risorgimento.
A complex character loved and adored by his disciples as much as criticized by his opponents, Mazzini spent his entire life fighting for a united and republican Italy, embodying the need for freedom and justice of his time.
50 Great Giuseppe Mazzini quotes:
1. “The world is not a show but a field of battle.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
2. “The true instrument of progress lies in the moral factor.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
3. “Peoples learn more from defeat than kings from triumph.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
4. “Education is the bread of the soul.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
5. “The family is the home of the core.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
6. “Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples” – Giuseppe Mazzini
7. “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.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
8. “Freedom is not an end, but it is a means to develop our strengths.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
9. “The lack of generosity in winning diminishes the merit and fruits of victory.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
10. “The past epoch, an epoch that ended with the French Revolution, was destined to emancipate man, the individual, winning him the gifts of freedom, equality, fraternity. The new epoch is destined to constitute humanity; … it is destined to organize a Europe of peoples, as independent as their internal mission, associated with each other for a common purpose.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
11. “We want a homeland, a homeland one and quickly. We can give in on everything; on this no. Can you, can you give it to us? “- Giuseppe Mazzini
12. “Constancy is the indispensable complement to all other human virtues.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
13. “As long as, domestic or foreign, you have tyranny, how can you have a homeland? The homeland is the home of man, not of the slave.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
14. “The equilibrium leading to peace, the so-called balance of powers, is an ineffective lie, if it is not a balance, a balance of justice: – that to found it a revision of those unjust, unequal, tyrannical conventions, to which the peoples did not intervene, is necessary, nor did they ever confirm.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
15. “Today what matters above all is to moralize Italy.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
16. “Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
17. “What is the most important duty? One’s duty toward one’s parent.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
18. “So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
19. “Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterward in the material sphere.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
20. “Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
21. “Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
22. “Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
23. “Liberty and equality–lovely and sacred words!” – Giuseppe Mazzini
24. “The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
25. “The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
26. “Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
27. “The religion of humanity is love.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
28. “Life is not given to us that we might live idly without work. No, our life is a struggle and a journey. Good should struggle with evil; truth should struggle with falsehood; freedom should struggle with slavery; love should struggle with hatred. Life is movement, a walk along the way of life to the fulfillment of those ideas which illuminate us, both in our intellect and in our hearts, with divine light.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
29. “Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
30. “Your freedom is not the denial of all authority; it is the denial of any authority which does not represent the collective purpose of the nation.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
31. “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.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
32. “God has given you your country as a cradle, and humanity as a mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
33. “The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
34. “A nation is the universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
35. “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.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
36. “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.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
37. “Labor is the divine law of our existence.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
38. “Good council has no price.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
39. “Art does not imitate, but interpret.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
40. “Each of us brings with him an element, more or less important, of the life of humanity to come.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
41. “Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
42. “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.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
43. “You have given the first and most powerful cry of regeneration!” – Giuseppe Mazzini
44. “The Family is God’s concept, not yours. Human power cannot suppress it. Like the homeland, rather than the homeland, the family is an element of life.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
45. “Thought and Action.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
46. “Today we know that the law of Life is PROGRESS.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
47. “In clear words, clear answer. We will not give up. We are strong and stubborn. We have for us the instinct of youth, of the people of Italy.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
48. “Education, like wealth, can be a source of good and evil according to the intentions with which it is done: consecrated to the progress of all, it is a means of civilization and freedom; turned to one’s own profit, it becomes a means of tyranny and corruption.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
49. “The life of a soul is sacred, in all its periods: in the earthly period as in the others that will follow.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
50. „We must not abolish property because today it belongs to a few; the way must be opened so that the many can buy it.” – Giuseppe Mazzini
We hope that you learned something new from these 50 Giuseppe Mazzini quotes.