Occupation: Journalist Birth: April 22, 1909 Death: July 22, 2001
The love of power excludes all others..
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 i….
Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of Italian po….
You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church..
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….
Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remai….
Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians..
The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked..
Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader..
Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too..
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, jus….
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..
[Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are certainly a gen….
Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity..
Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never..
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone..
Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur coat, spend more than all their European collegues..
A real writer [...] looks not in another writer but himself..
Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants..
An Italian university is a contradiction in terms..
Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American..