“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.
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