"The judiciary is like the referee in a football match. You can say that the referee makes mistakes, that he is unprepared, that he doesn't see, but if some players claim that he is corrupt and refuse to accept his decisions when they are against them but demand that they be upheld when they are in their favour, the game quickly ends in a brawl because, sooner or later, all the other players will behave in the same way. Metaphor aside, the social contract that holds us together is broken and we descend the steep slope of anarchy and civil war."
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'Guerra civile? No, ma uno psicolabile ne ha colto il clima, Il Gazzettino (December 18, 2009)
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