Giuseppe Mazzini: Citations en anglais
“So long as you are ready to die for Humanity, the life of your country is immortal.”
On the Duties of Man (1844-58)
Life and Writings: Young Europe: General Principles; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 207
“Art does not imitate, but interpret.”
The Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini (1864), p. vii
Contexte: 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?
“One sole God;
One sole ruler, — his Law;
One sole interpreter of that law — Humanity.”
Life and Writings: Young Europe: General Principles. No. 1., reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1923), p. 318
On the Duties of Man (1844-58)
On the Duties of Man (1844-58)
“Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.”
Attributed in The Cambridge Modern History (1907), ed. Adolphus William Ward et al., Vol. 10, p. 122
Reported in Thomas Jones, The Duties of Man and Other Essays (1915), page 61
“Inexorable as to principles, tolerant and impartial as to persons.”
Watchword for the Roman Republic (1849)
Life and Writings, Young Italy; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 333
