Indro Montanelli Quotes

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

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

The love of power excludes all others.

You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.

Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.

Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.