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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice."
"It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world."
"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."
"We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi."
"Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends."
"The cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in."
"The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union."
"You turn the book over in your hands, you scan the sentences on the back of the jacket, generic phrases that don't say a great deal. So much the better, there is no message that indiscreetly outshouts the message that the book itself must communicate directly, that you must extract from the book, however much or little it may be. Of course, this circling of the book, too, this reading around it before reading inside it, is a part of the pleasure in a new book, but like all preliminary pleasures, it has its optimal duration if you want it to serve as a thrust toward the more substantial pleasure of the consummation of the act, namely the reading of the book."
"Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings."
"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."
"To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination."
"Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction."
"It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope."
"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
"It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West."
"Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that."
"Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me."
"Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole."
"A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory."
"There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar."
"The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not."
"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
"Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?"
"Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love."
"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."
"In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing."
"As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment."
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."
"The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal."
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