Giuseppe Mazzini citáty

„Duše tvoří svoje tělo. Jedině idea upraví si příbytek, který jest jí důstojný.“

„Umělec jest buď veleknězem, nebo více méně obratným komediantem.“

„Nespěte ve stanech vašich otců. Svět postupuje.“

„Čím vzdálenější cíl, tím jest nutnější jíti vpřed. Nespěchej, ale také neodpočívej.“

„Nedoufejte v nic od cizích vlád. Nikdy nebudou ochotny vám skutečně pomoci, dokud neukážete, že jste dost silní, abyste zvítězili bez nich.“

„Lidé, kteří ve jménu nezávislosti individua odporují principu státní výchovy, si neuvědomují, že chtějí dítěti odebrat výuku bratrství, které mu dává duši a nezávislost na tyranské zvůli jediného individua, otce.“

„Pokud jste připraveni zemřít za lidskost, život vaší země je nesmrtelný.“

„Pokud lidé ztratí víru, která je vedla, řítí se z jedné propasti do druhé.“

“So long as you are ready to die for Humanity, the life of your country is immortal.”

“Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.”

“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.”

“Art does not imitate, but interpret.”

“One sole God;
One sole ruler, — his Law;
One sole interpreter of that law — Humanity.”

“Your first duties-first as regards importance-are, as I have already told you, towards Humanity. You are men before you are either citizens or fathers. If you do not embrace the whole human family in your affection, if you do not bear witness to your belief in the Unity of that family, consequent upon the Unity of God…if, wheresoever a fellow-creature suffers, or the dignity of human nature is violated by falsehood or tyranny-you are not ready, if able, to aid the unhappy, and do not feel called upon to combat, if able, for the redemption of the betrayed or oppressed-you violate your law of life, you comprehend not that Religion which will be the guide and blessing of the future.”

“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.”

“Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.”

“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.”

“Inexorable as to principles, tolerant and impartial as to persons.”

“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.”

“Country is not a mere zone of territory. The true country is the Idea to which it gives birth; it is the Thought of love, the sense of communion which unites in one all the sons of that territory.”

“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.”