Music is the fragrance of the universe. Giuseppe Mazzini More Quotes by Giuseppe Mazzini More Quotes From Giuseppe Mazzini 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 godlovecountry 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 lovecountryson 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. Giuseppe Mazzini brotherrightscountry No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people. Giuseppe Mazzini freedomwinninglong Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none. Giuseppe Mazzini respectinspirationideas Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth. Giuseppe Mazzini truthwingstwo 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. Giuseppe Mazzini brotherlovecountry 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. Giuseppe Mazzini life-and-lovemotherchildren Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere. Giuseppe Mazzini bayonetsprinciplesfirsts The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities. Giuseppe Mazzini qualityhonorcountry We form an association of brothers in all points of the globe ... yet there is one unseen that can hardly be felt, yet it weighs on us. Whence comes it? Where is it? No one knows ... or at least no one tells. This association is secret even to us the veterans of the Secret Societies. Giuseppe Mazzini unseenbrothersecret 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 individualityearthmen 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. Giuseppe Mazzini heartlovecountry Pardon is the virtue of victory. Giuseppe Mazzini victoryvirtueprison Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. Giuseppe Mazzini brotherrightscountry Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words! Giuseppe Mazzini lovelyequalityliberty The religion of humanity is love. Giuseppe Mazzini humanitylove Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers. Giuseppe Mazzini communitybrotherlaw 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 elementsstrongrights Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die. Giuseppe Mazzini individualdiescivilization
