Indro Montanelli Short Quotes

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Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.

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A real writer [...] looks not in another writer but himself.

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Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.

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Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity.

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Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.

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Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur, spend more than all their European collegues.

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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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Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.

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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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This isn't the Right, this is the billy-club. Italians don't know how to go Right without ending up in the billy-club.

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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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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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Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American.

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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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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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Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives priviliges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. The jackasses remain. Triumphant.

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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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