Giuseppe Mazzini: Man

Giuseppe Mazzini was Italian patriot, politician and philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on man.

Giuseppe Mazzini: 28 quotes5 likes

“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.”

Giuseppe Mazzini

Life and Writings: Young Europe: General Principles; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 207

“So long as a single one amongst your brothers has no vote to represent him in the development of the national life, so long as a single man, able and willing to work, languishes in poverty through want of work to do, you have no country in the sense in which country ought to exist-the country of all and for all.”

Giuseppe Mazzini

On the Duties of Man (1844-58)

“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

Reported in ‎Thomas Jones, The Duties of Man and Other Essays (1915), page 61

“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

Watchword for the Roman Republic (1849)