“The open revolution changes also the spirit of man, the relationship between man and man, because it changes the method of struggle. Therefore it brings a total transformation of power economy and nature.”Help us translate this quoteAldo Capitini Hymn
““The two main directions of modern ethics with their affirmation of the importance of individual conscience and the extension of moral concern for all rational beings, as worthy of equal rights, imply a hard struggle to deny absolute value to ecclesiastical or state institutions.”Help us translate this quoteAldo Capitini Hymn
“If I conceive God as existing separately from the world my ideal will be likewise; but if God is nearness to the world I will stay at my post. My spiritual life will then consist in continually relating my particular personality to the centre of all personalities. The world is not everything, but neither is it nothing, it is a multiplicity of finite beings for whom God is absolute nearness.”Help us translate this quoteAldo Capitini Hymn
“Oh special day, unveil your essence which redeems –newness of peaceyou are beyond utility.To love from the root,all united for ever, beyond the appearance of the transient forms.”Help us translate this quoteAldo Capitini Chorus
“This is the reason why we are not satisfied with a small or a big partial reform, because we want a total change. And if we do our utmost to use pure means and to maintain an honest and loving conscience, this will be the offer we can make and the guarantee that we can have that a total liberation will take place.”Help us translate this quoteAldo Capitini Hymn
“Nonviolence does good to those who practice it and receive it: it makes each other better, lifts them up, unites them.”Help us translate this quoteAldo Capitini Hymn
“In Remembrance of Aldo Capitini’ Translated from the Italian by Maddalena Rayner.”Help us translate this quoteAldo Capitini Hymn