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Quotes by Italian Authors
"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."
"Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out."
"If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love."
"Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins."
"You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow."
"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."
"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
"I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant."
"The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars."
"How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!"
"All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition."
"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example."
"A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis."
"Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon."
"It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman."
"The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off."
"I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie."
"Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them."
"It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs."
"I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin."
"War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace."
"They killed our mirror, our light, our comfort and our true guide."
"We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance."
"Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary."
"In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life."
"The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines."
"And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal."
"The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito."
"It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion."
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