Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

Italian L'avventura di un povero cristiano)
Three of Silone's poems were included by Hanns Eisler in his Deutsche Sinfonie along with poetry by Bertolt Brecht. Silone was married to Darina Laracy an Irish student of Italian literature. The two historians publiIgnazio Siloned the results of their research in a work titled L'informatore.