Indro Montanelli: Frasi in inglese

Indro Montanelli era giornalista italiano. Frasi in inglese.
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“I fly to Luxembourg on Berlusconi's usual twin engine, who accompanies us, glad to exhibit himself and exhibit his status in an international ceremony. The gold medal (but is it really gold?) is given to me by Gaston Thorn, head of the Luxembourg government. Berlusconi fills his notebook with addresses: of all the V. I. P.'s that he has met. He's a true climber that takes advantage of everything and throws nothing away.”

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Luxembourg, 23 may, from accounts with myself. [citation needed]
2000s - 2010s

“[A certain Italian judge] declared in an interview that at night he has no need of sleeping pills since, with regards to the Law, his conscience is at peace. We believe him without further ado. But if he asked himself the same question with regards to Justice, I ask myself if his sleep would be equally untroubled. And we are after all aware that he'll never ask himself this question, and on the contrary it would seem to him totally odd. Because, for an Italian judge, the Law and Justice have nothing to do with each other.”

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Il testimone, p. 386.
2000s - 2010s

“It isn't necessary to be socialists in order to love Pertini. Whatever he says or does, smells of cleanliness, of loyalty and of sincerity.”

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Indro Montanelli libro Storia d'Italia

Storia d'Italia, volume l'Italia degli anni di fango.
2000s - 2010s

“This isn't a romanticized biography. It's a biography period. If here and there it resembles a romantic novel, the credit is only Garibaldi's, not his potrayers.”

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from the preface to Indro Montanelli e Marco Nozza, Garibaldi, BUR.
2000s - 2010s

“Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.”

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L'Italia giacobina e carbonara, Rizzoli, Milano 1972, p. 144.
1950s - 1990s

“The only advice that I'm in the mood to give - and that I give regularly - to young people is this: fight for what you believe in. You will lose, just like I have lost, all the battles. But only one you may win. The one that you engage every morning, in front of the mirror.”

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Soltanto un giornalista, Rizzoli, 2002.
2000s - 2010s

“I have never dreamt of contesting the Church her right to remain faithful to herself, meaning to the commandments that come from Doctrine… but that she expects to impose these commandments upon me who do not have the good fortune of being a believer, trying to pour them into civil law in a way that they become obligatory even to us non-believers, is it right? To me it doesn't seem so.”

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cited in " Non vince la scienza http://www.repubblica.it/2008/10/sezioni/cronaca/eluana-eutanasia-3/comm-veronesi/comm-veronesi.html" by Umberto Veronesi, in la Repubblica, 14 November 2008.
2000s - 2010s

“Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of Italian political life he is ready upon cold request to provide an inquiry brief refined in the most minute details is a nice comfort. But also a bit unsettling. The day I asked him if in that archive, into which no one is allowed to stick their nose, there were a brief with my name on it, Marco changed the subject.”

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Preface to Il Pollaio delle Libertà by Marco Travaglio, Vallecchi, 1995.
1950s - 1990s

“I do not want to suffer, I do not have a christian concept of suffering. They tell us that suffering elevates the spirit; no suffering is something that hurts and that's all, it elevates nothing. And therefore I fear suffering. Because with regards to death, I, who in everything believe to be moderate, am absolutely radical. If we have a right to life, we have also a right to death. It rests on us, and it must be regognized the right to choose the when and the how of our own death.”

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cited in la Repubblica, 25 April 2002.
2000s - 2010s

“I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.”

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beppegrillo.it, 7 may, 2008.
2000s - 2010s

“When a nice quote comes to mind, I always attribute it to Montesquieu, or to La Rochefoucauld. They've never complained.”

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Quando mi viene in mente un bell'aforisma, lo metto in conto a Montesquieu, od a La Rochefoucauld. Non si sono mai lamentati.
cited in Mai dette, ma le ripetiamo sempre Ecco le frasi fantasma della storia http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/mai-dette-ripetiamo-sempre-ecco-frasi-fantasma-storia.html by Luigi Mascheroni, in il Giornale, 21 March 2009, p. 22.
2000s - 2010s

“Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.”

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cited in Franco Fontanini, Piccola antologia del pensiero breve, Liguori Editore, 2007, p. 12.
2000s - 2010s

“In Italy there is a fringe of imbeciles who believe they can resurrect communism. Bury the corpse of Marxism is not easy, because for many people it means to deny the entire existence. Of course Bertinotti is not of these: he knows nothing about Marxism, he doesn't care anything, he is a little clown, an Italian populist who stirs in the streets tides of poor devils and speaks again of the working masses, who sees only him.”

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Corriere della Sera, 19 December 1997.
1950s - 1990s

“The American death penalty exists and it withstands in America because it was a basic and constitutive element of its birth and development. Of the famous 102 «Wandering Fathers» that for first they disembarked from the «Mayflower» in that Continent not to ransack the wealths as they made Spaniards and Portuguese in Mexico and in America of the South, but to build you a new and free society, around the two bystanders they were leftovers of jail that ran away the Justice and the jails of Europe, and a bystander they were men that liberty looked for, and above all that religious. The first ones had in pocket the gun, the seconds the Bible, but in his/her Calvinist version that of the retaliation, based on the conception of a God executioner that demands the death of whom without correct motive it gives it.”

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Corriere della Sera, 9 July 2000.
2000s - 2010s

“No, Travaglio kills no one. With a knife. He uses a weapon much more refined and unendictable in court: the archive.”

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cited in Marco Travaglio, Montanelli e il Cavaliere: storia di un grande e di un piccolo uomo.
2000s - 2010s

“This world materialist, hedonist and exhibitionist it doesn't even thrill me; and, considering that he reads me, you/he/she should know him/it. But I would want to know the system that you have in mind, and don't have the courage or the ability to propose. A Franciscan world? Beautiful: but looked around you, and tell me if you see a saio. A revised and correct communism? It would make the end of the other, even if he/she won't succeed in repeating its disasters. Believe me G.: the only acceptable social and economic system today, in West, it is that based on the market: a checked capitalism and moderate, to intend us. It is desirable that it may also correct: and not this always happens, it is true. The trouble is that the capitalism is served as the capitalists - and those, must admit, they are often difficult to be digested. You don't try to confuse me the ideas, therefore. You won't succeed us. I probably have three times his/her years, and I have seen where they conduct these generic pulls against "the multinationals": sooner or later, someone will depose the bar and he/she will take the gun. I forgot: I sign my opinions, she throws the stone and it hides the hand. All brave ones so, you boys of Seattle?”

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Corriere della Sera, 9 June 2001.
2000s - 2010s

“[Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are certainly a genius, and I an asshole. But in the art of argument the genius is me, and you the asshole.”

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cited in Marco Travaglio, Montanelli e il Cavaliere: storia di un grande e di un piccolo uomo.
2000s - 2010s

“Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith.”

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Controcorrente, 1974-1986.
1950s - 1990s

“The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked.”

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Controcorrente, 1974 – 1986.
1950s - 1990s

“Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.”

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cited in TV Ippocrate, Rai News, 13 giugno 2010.
2000s - 2010s