Indro Montanelli Quotes

Indro Alessandro Raffaello Schizogene Montanelli Knight Grand Cross OMRI was an Italian journalist and historian. He was among the 50 World Press Freedom Heroes of the previous 50 years named by the International Press Institute in 2000. He distinguished himself for his original approach to writing history in books such as History of the Greeks and History of Rome. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. April 1909 – 22. July 2001
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Famous Indro Montanelli Quotes

“Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.”

cited in TV Ippocrate, Rai News, 13 giugno 2010.
2000s - 2010s

“This isn't the Right, this is the billy-club. Italians don't know how to go Right without ending up in the billy-club.”

17 March 2001; cited in Montanelli e il Cavaliere by Marco Travaglio, Garzanti.
2000s - 2010s

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

From a lecture of journalism at the University of Turin, 12 May 1997; cited in La Stampa, 14 April, 2009.
1950s - 1990s

Indro Montanelli Quotes

“Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.”

L'Italia giacobina e carbonara, Rizzoli, Milano 1972, p. 144.
1950s - 1990s

“When a nice quote comes to mind, I always attribute it to Montesquieu, or to La Rochefoucauld. They've never complained.”

Quando mi viene in mente un bell'aforisma, lo metto in conto a Montesquieu, od a La Rochefoucauld. Non si sono mai lamentati.
cited in Mai dette, ma le ripetiamo sempre Ecco le frasi fantasma della storia http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/mai-dette-ripetiamo-sempre-ecco-frasi-fantasma-storia.html by Luigi Mascheroni, in il Giornale, 21 March 2009, p. 22.
2000s - 2010s

“Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.”

cited in Franco Fontanini, Piccola antologia del pensiero breve, Liguori Editore, 2007, p. 12.
2000s - 2010s

“No, Travaglio kills no one. With a knife. He uses a weapon much more refined and unendictable in court: the archive.”

cited in Marco Travaglio, Montanelli e il Cavaliere: storia di un grande e di un piccolo uomo.
2000s - 2010s

“[…] the love of power excludes all others.”

I protagonisti, Rizzoli, 1976, p. 265.
1950s - 1990s

“Let not the usual abstract arguments be brought to me, like the sacredness of life: no one contests the right of everyone to arrange their own life, I don't see why their own death has to be contested.”

cited in Enrico Bonerandi, Montanelli: pronto a morire http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2000/12/13/montanelli-pronto-morire.html, in la Repubblica, 13 December 2000, p. 36.
2000s - 2010s

“Men do not know how to appreciate or measure luck except that of others. Their own never.”

History of the Greeks, Rizzoli 1959.
1950s - 1990s

“A real writer […] doesn't look up to any other writer but himself.”

I protagonisti, Rizzoli, 1976, p. 207.
1950s - 1990s

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