Italian Quotes

Customers are very demanding and well informed.

It's always the same - all men and women want to be sexy.

I don't have the time to be bored.

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.

In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs.

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.

Oh, what a void there is in things.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

He conquers who endures.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?