Indro Montanelli: Doing

“[A certain Italian judge] declared in an interview that at night he has no need of sleeping pills since, with regards to the Law, his conscience is at peace. We believe him without further ado. But if he asked himself the same question with regards to Justice, I ask myself if his sleep would be equally untroubled. And we are after all aware that he'll never ask himself this question, and on the contrary it would seem to him totally odd. Because, for an Italian judge, the Law and Justice have nothing to do with each other.”

Indro Montanelli

Il testimone, p. 386.
2000s - 2010s

Peace , Justice , Law , Question

“I have never dreamt of contesting the Church her right to remain faithful to herself, meaning to the commandments that come from Doctrine… but that she expects to impose these commandments upon me who do not have the good fortune of being a believer, trying to pour them into civil law in a way that they become obligatory even to us non-believers, is it right? To me it doesn't seem so.”

Indro Montanelli

cited in " Non vince la scienza http://www.repubblica.it/2008/10/sezioni/cronaca/eluana-eutanasia-3/comm-veronesi/comm-veronesi.html" by Umberto Veronesi, in la Repubblica, 14 November 2008.
2000s - 2010s

Faith , Law , Way

“I do not want to suffer, I do not have a christian concept of suffering. They tell us that suffering elevates the spirit; no suffering is something that hurts and that's all, it elevates nothing. And therefore I fear suffering. Because with regards to death, I, who in everything believe to be moderate, am absolutely radical. If we have a right to life, we have also a right to death. It rests on us, and it must be regognized the right to choose the when and the how of our own death.”

Indro Montanelli

cited in la Repubblica, 25 April 2002.
2000s - 2010s

Life , Death , Fear , Suffering

“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.”

Indro Montanelli

Controcorrente, 1974-1986.
1950s - 1990s

Faith

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

Indro Montanelli

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

Men