Giuseppe Mazzini Quotes

A collection of quotes by Giuseppe Mazzini.

Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872) was an Italian politician, journalist, and revolutionary. He played a crucial role in the Italian Risorgimento, a movement for the unification of Italy. Mazzini founded the secret society Young Italy, advocating for a democratic republic and inspiring nationalist sentiments across the country. He tirelessly worked towards the establishment of a united Italy, and his ideas influenced future leaders such as Camillo di Cavour and Giuseppe Garibaldi. Mazzini's passion for nationalism and his dedication to the cause of Italian unification made him a prominent figure in Italian history.

The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, W

The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. 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; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity.

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The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstac

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.

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Good council has no price.

Good council has no price.

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advan

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

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Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rig

Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are the bastards of Humanity. Soldiers without a banner, Israelites among the nations, you will find neither faith nor protection; none will be sureties for you. Do not beguile yourselves with the hope of emancipation from unjust social conditions if you do not first conquer a Country for yourselves.

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Nationalism Nation Nationality

Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the l

Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you; say to the priests that you know God better than all of them together do, and that between God and His law you have no need of any intermediary. The people will understand you, and repeat with you: We believe in God the Father, who is Intelligence and Love, Creator and Teacher of Humanity. And in this saying you and the People will conquer.

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The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.

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Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: i

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.

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O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, t

O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we love and are loved by, and with which we have a more intimate and quicker communion of feeling and thought than with others; a family which by its concentration upon a given spot, and by the homogeneous nature of its elements, is destined for a special kind of activity.

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God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mo

God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

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Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

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A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory

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.

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Nationalism Nation Nationality

Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to transla

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.

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The republic, as I at least understand it, means association

The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.

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