Top 43 Giuseppe Mazzini Quotes (NATIONALISM)

Top 20 Wise Giuseppe Mazzini Quotes To Live By (WISDOM)

“Life is not given to us that we might live idly without work. No, our life is a struggle and a journey. Goof should struggle with evil; truth should struggle with falsehood; freedom should struggle with slavery; love should struggle with hatred. Life is movement, a walk along the way of life to the fulfillment of those ideas which illuminate us, both in our intellect and in our hearts, with divine light.”
Giuseppe Mazzini

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

Thought produces action, whence it is only by the energy of thought that national reforms, revolutions, and improvements have been affected. — Thought produces **action**, whence it is only by the energy of thought that national reforms, revolutions, and improvements have been affected.

“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

The religion of humanity is love. — The religion of **humanity** is **love**.

Every nation has its mission, which is to serve the progress and civilization of humanity at large.

Without country, we have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, nor life. — Without country, we have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, nor **life**.

Nationality is a mission and a universal necessity, the spirit which animates and pervades every people, as the soul animates and pervades the body, determining its special character and life. — Nationality is a mission and a universal necessity, the spirit which animates and pervades every people, as the soul animates and pervades the body, determining its special **character** and **life**.

Nationality is the providence of humanity.

“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

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice. — **Poetry** is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. — The secret of **freedom** lies in **educating** people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Ideas grow quickly when watered by the blood of martyrs.

“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

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it. — The **duty** of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world. — The **mother** is the first teacher of the **child**. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world. — **Music** is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

God has given to every people the intuition of its destiny, the genius to accomplish it, and the force to carry it forward. — God has given to every people the intuition of its destiny, the **genius** to accomplish it, and the force to carry it forward.

8 Giuseppe Mazzini Quotes on Love for Country

“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

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities. — The **honor** of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

“Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the people. 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

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

“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

Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers. — Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and **equal** community of brothers.

“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

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.

2 Giuseppe Mazzini on Freedom

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.

Liberty and equality - lovely and sacred words! — Liberty and **equality** – lovely and sacred words!

13 Giuseppe Mazzini That Will Make You Think

“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

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. — 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.

“Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.”
Giuseppe Mazzini

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

“In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.”
Giuseppe Mazzini