Indro Montanelli: Right

Indro Montanelli was Italian journalist. Explore interesting quotes on right.

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“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. <br class="br">2000s - 2010s

“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

“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.”

Indro Montanelli

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

“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.”

Indro Montanelli

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. <br class="br">2000s - 2010s