Italian Politician Quotes

We are ready to proclaim throughout Italy this great principle: a free church in a free state.

How beautiful is youth, that is always slipping away! Whoever wants to be happy, let him be so: of tomorrow there's no knowing.

Lorenzo de' Medici

The pillars of the nation state are the sword and the currency, and we changed that. The euro-decision changed the concept of the nation state.

In Milan, traffic lights are instructions. In Rome, they are suggestions. In Naples, they are Christmas decorations.

Antonio Martino

If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head].

I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.

Leonardo Sciascia

At times, we who live in a world of active politics make the mistake of believing that political facts are the only ones with a true meaning and a resonance.

Giulio Andreotti

In Italy it is not important who you are but whom you belong to.

Leoluca Orlando

The brain is the great factory of thought. To it are directed all the forces of nature, forces which, for thousands of years, have been expending themselves upon it and impressing on it a slow and continuous motion of evolution.

Leonardo Bianchi

Fascism is used by the bourgeoisie when the latter consider itself no longer able to fight off the peril of a socialist revolution. Fascism is, therefore, organic to the logic of capitalism and represents a more authoritarian handling that bosses temporary use, when necessary, in order to maintain their rule.