Journalists From Italy

"In the Hebrew language the letters of the word "Italy" mean "island of divine dew": do we also want to erase the name of our homeland so as not to offend atheists? And the national anthem that calls to God."

"Oriana Fallaci is not only a great journalist: for me she is "the" journalism. And I underline "is" (wasn't) for many reasons. One of which lies in the fact that its pages will long remain the best school of journalism, but above all a formidable breath of intellectual freedom, a vaccine against all idiots, variously placed in the hierarchies of power, and against the lazy cowardice of conformism."

"Agnostics or atheists or secularists who listen to Bergoglio feel confirmed in their non-belief and certainly not called to conversion. Indeed, these characters (Scalfari is an example) draw from Bergoglio's words new conviction in their hostility towards the Church, hearing themselves justified by the Pope himself... While the Catholics who listen to Bergoglio increasingly conform to dominant secularist culture. Bergoglio's "mission" is therefore in reverse: bringing the Lord's sheep into the mouths of the wolves, that is, worldly Power."

"Never in the history of the Church has there been such a frightening concentration of prophecies that foretell a catastrophic time for Christendom and the world. And they are Catholic prophecies, i.e., related to saints, pontiffs and mystics or messages from Marian apparitions recognized by the Church."

"His teaching (of Pope Francis) is as iridescent as Saruman's dress. I am thrilled by his evangelical freedom, his simplicity, his be outside the clerical mold. It is emotional when he talks about the gaze of Jesus or, as in recent days in Guadalupe, the maternal eyes of Mary. And when we remember that our Savior does not want to lose anyone and takes each of us on his shoulders."

"Ratzinger would make anyone pale. He is a true Doctor of the Church, a man who from his precious participation in the Council to his brilliant academic activity and his theological production, from his episcopate in Munich to his memorable mission as guardian of the faith alongside Wojtyła, its true pillar, has become a giant in the last fifty years (also in the debate with secular culture). And all this associated with truly extraordinary humanity, simplicity, moral courage, humility qualities....We could continue with Montini, three degrees , precious collaborator of Pius XII in the Secretariat of State, therefore in the government of the universal Church, in crucial years; great theological preparation, friend of important thinkers for Christianity such as Jacques Maritain, later bishop of Milan capable of giving a vigorous missionary push to the metropolis, therefore protagonist of the Council."

"The woman bent down to pick up the fallen pomegranate from the grass. It was ripe, it had burst open in the fall, stained her white dress. The vision of the laden barge, the pale island, the flowery meadow returned to her loving spirit along with the Creator's words: 'This is my body...Take and eat..."

"Commander Gabriele D'Annunzio, I know of nothing that equals the harmony of your captivating words, the energy of your victorious work. With the devoted, grateful heart of an Italian and an artist, I hope your wishes be fulfilled. For beautiful Italy, for great Italy, for her noblest son, for his valiant comrades, eja, eja, eja, alalà!"

"It was the beginning of June; summer was arising out of spring, like an aloe from a field of grass."

"He wanted to possess not the body but the soul of that woman; and to possess her entire soul, with all her tenderness, all her joys, all her fears, all her anguish, all her dreams, in other words, the entire lief of her soul; and to be able to say: I am the life of her life."

"And in the kisses, what deep sweetness! There are women's mouths that seem to ignite with love the breath that opens them. Whether they are reddened by blood richer than purple, or frozen by the pallor of agony, whether they are illuminated by the goodness of consent or darkened by the shadow of disdain, they always carry within them an enigma that disturbs men of intellect, and attracts them and captivates them. A constant discord between the expression of the lips and that of the eyes generates the mystery; it seems as if a duplicitous soul reveals itself there with a different beauty, happy and sad, cold and passionate, cruel and merciful, humble and proud, laughing and mocking; and the abiguity arouses discomfort in the spirit that takes pleasure in dark things."

"But the daily tasks and prayers of men, the ancient city tired from having lived too long, the ravaged marble and worn out bells, all those things oppressed by the weight of memories, all those perishable things were rendered humble in comparison with the tremendous blazing Alps that tore at the sky with their thousand unyielding spikes, a vast, solitary city that was waiting, perhaps, for a new race of Titans."

"From blogs, where ideas aggregate consensus, consensus will aggregate money and everything will become mobilization politics. Winning, very soon. It is destined to withstand the impact of time and the decline of passions. In short, it will no longer be an emotional mobilization, as V-Day certainly was. It will be a stable construction of an alternative proposal to govern politics, skipping the mediation of professionals who are now useless and leading the world towards a new era: the era of direct democracy, made up of primaries, laws of popular initiative, propositional and abrogative referendums, of a lean and efficient executive elected directly by the citizens that will govern with a limit of two mandates."

"A fat, fascist cleric. He says terrifying things, he was also at that homophobic meeting with the pedophile priest. In this case we say cherchez l'argent, someone must have financed that newspaper he makes. Someone in the Curia needs a fanfare against the new Pope, which is wonderful. She even received a trans woman at the Vatican. There won't be any volunteers to pay for a newspaper like this. (Alessandro Cecchi Paone)"

"You hide behind the name of a religion because you have to cure yourself of pathologies. (Fabio Volo)"

"Adinolfi, in fact, shows little familiarity with conducting, has a strong Roman accent, is an incurable narcissus. But he's young because he has a blog. On which he writes: "I am proud to have made my work available to those who remember that the mafias have caused 2500 deaths in the last fifteen years in this battered country of ours." Wouldn't it be better to acquire some skills, in addition to the job of blogger, before tackling such important and decisive issues? (Aldo Grasso)"

"oral sex is not liked by women and is a very clear element of the degradation of women. You have made such a big deal out of the story of submission, I don't think there is a more violently submissive practice than that sexual practice, in which you focus exclusively on seeking the pleasure of the male with the submission of the woman."

"I wanted to be the rebel of a bigoted society, but in a society of sluts and dicks the only possible rebellion is to be bigots."

"The Cirinnà bill wants to attach the price tag to the womb of mothers. Civil rights exist, and they are the rights of children."

"The Christian submissive wife is the foundation stone, the rock upon which the [[family] is built. Submissive means submissive, that is, the condition for the family to exist. A meek woman. And submissive doesn't mean there's no equality, they're two different things."

"With "I Want a Mom" I fight in defense of the weak: of children who have the right to a mother and a father and not to a "parent 1 and parent 2", of children who cannot be aborted to participate in a Big Brother or mistaken in the womb for the heterologous of some sloppy sorcerer's apprentice, but also of the sick elderly who cannot be eliminated with potassium chloride thinking that that is a frontier of freedom and of the Indian or Ukrainian woman who must not be forced to sell her dignity as a mother and her child because rich Westerners buy them, in short, in defense of the voiceless we erect the wall of our new resistance. From"

"Half salary, low and inconstant, we use it to pay for welfare for others: health care and pensions for our fathers. We were born after the '70s."

"Respect and friendship for Cuffaro who was established in Rebibbia, the Christian Democrats respect the institutions, even when they are thrown into the dust. May it be a lesson for the shame of those who reject judgments and sentences."

"A new system of decision-making is emerging for the communities in which we live. Go online, don't be distracted and don't underestimate blogs. They are the vanguards of this inevitable transition to the politics of the future."

"[...] declassifying the blog form and even the Internet as a whole as an information tool is the classic mistake made by those who do not fully experience the Internet. Blogs are not just a tool for information and denunciation. Blogs can be (and not from today) a place of politics. Not of political chatter, of theatrics, of gossip or of the perpetual lamenting of the rain-government-thief. Blogs have been a place for the aggregation of ideas and consensus, for real politics, for at least four years. That is, since a gentleman called Howard Dean and a web movement called Move On managed to raise something like seventy-eight million dollars in a few weeks to allow the former governor of Vermont to challenge the classic old Boston senator John Kerry in Heinz in the Democratic Party primaries for the 2004 US presidential elections. That model, which led Dean first to make Kerry tremble for the nomination and now to lead the organizational machine of the American Democratic Party, told the world that the web was something more than an information tool. It was an epochal novelty capable of transforming an unknown gentleman into a credible contender for the presidency of the greatest superpower on the planet."

"For me then, every encounter with a woman is like suddenly finding myself in front of an abyss, and with my eyes blindfolded. (From One year later, p. 215)"

"Antonio Delfini, Poems of the end of the world, Feltrinelli, 1961."

"Antonio Delfini, Piccolo libro dense, in Gino Ruozzi, Italian writers of aphorisms, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore."

"Antonio Delfini, The memory of the Basque, Nistri - Lischi, Pisa, 1956."

"Antonio Delfini, Diari, 1927-1961, edited by Giovanna Delfini and Natalia Ginzburg, Einaudi, 1982."

"A writer is always someone, to me, who has failed at something else in life."

"If it weren't for the suffering of others to make us laugh, we would never laugh."

"What we must do is not to be ashamed of feelings that are too great."

"Why didn't they give us a life different from the one we live?"

"The moon is like freedom: it is in the sky and at the bottom of the well."

"It is necessary, in humanity, to use all those means that liberate and console as much as possible the conscious souls, poor or rich."

"Meanwhile, a Barbery organ, the sound of which reached me from the courtyard of a house in Via Campanoni, changed the course of my reveries. Looking inside the bookcase I realized that the girl was no longer there. (From One year later, p. 214)"

"She took a long sigh and slowly stood up. Big and heavy, with a wide and long gray skirt with black stripes, and a dark, all-worked blouse that smelled like a closed cupboard with biscuits forgotten inside. (From The Milliner, p. 123)"

"I went to Bologna on the trail of Stendhaliane days and I lost myself, with my heart squeezed like a sensitive hazelnut in his shell, in the itineraries of Dino Campana. If I had been a poet instead of a bourgeois on the road to disappointment, that would have been the time to write some poems. I left Florence around midday and an hour later I was in Bologna. I wandered around all the streets and when I couldn't stand it anymore due to tiredness, I went to the station and took the first train to Florence: this also happened at two or three in the morning. The strangeness was this: that being in Florence, I ignored Florence and got to know Bologna. (From Introduction, pp. 93-94)"

"Then remembering that the Viennese dancer had told me that after Modena, she would go to Bologna, and then to Ferrara, I resolved one evening to go to this city. I took the road to Finale (a bad road at the time). Near Medolla my car was stoned by a group of young fascists. Those were the times of economic sanctions, and the country fascists had tasked avant-gardists, and perhaps even balilla, with demonstrating against cars that dared to circulate anyway. These cars, according to propaganda, wasted the petrol necessary for the conquest of the Empire. I declare that I too had (for other sentimental reasons) a dislike for cars, so those stones cheered me up, and indeed inspired me with a bit of envy towards those boys: I would have liked to be one of them. Even today I would happily throw stones at cars. (From Introduction, pp. 79-80)"

"(In parentheses I declare my hatred for all those who for Rome or from Rome wanted, against me and against many other Italians, to sow the seed of dejection on my - on our - proud feeling of not being born in Rome, not to live in Rome, and on my - our - impression that in Rome, and only in Rome, one finds that given form of life that the demeaners of this century call province and provincialism). (From Introduction, pp. 71-92)"

"I was promoted to serf (that's progress). (From Diaries, 1927-1961)"

"We want to change the world, or change its place. (From Notes of a Stranger, Marka, 1990)"

"Thought is prophecy and memory. life is the future and the past. Life is never present. The present never is. (From Diaries, 1927-1961)"

"Personally, I am not prejudicially against wars, as long as wars have international legality, as long as they have an objective, this objective is verified, as long as they are the last resort, and above all as long as we do not play with words, that is, we do not fool people."

"A courageous dissident beyond xenophobic and fascist ideas, which in Italy would have landed him in jail for incitement to racism under the Mancino law."

"Migrants are human ammunition used in a war bigger than us and them."

"The increasingly tired and rhetorical rituals of official commemorations that follow one another from year to year, instead of helping to make remembrance, fuel the molasses effect. Putting everything on the hagiography of the heroic anti-Mafia judge and nothing on those details of his last days of life that, taken one by one, say nothing. But which composed in the chronological mosaic help to understand much, if not everything. Namely, the political-terrorist nature of the Via D'Amelio massacre, with the peculiarities that distinguish it from that of Capaci in spite of the close consecutio temporum, and project it rather on what will happen many months later: the spring-summer 1993 bombs in Milan, Florence and Rome, and then the pax mafiosa that began with the failed (indeed, revoked) bombing of the capital's Olympic stadium, coinciding with the descent into the political arena of Silvio Berlusconi and Marcello Dell'Utri, and continuing to the present day."

"The Constitution of the Italian Republic is far more advanced than Italy and us Italians: it is a smoking worn by a pig."

"It therefore seems to me that only when labor is equitably remunerated, or at least remunerated like man's, will woman take the first and most important step forward, since it is only by becoming economically independent that she will withdraw from moral parasitism and conquer her freedom, dignity, and the actual respect of the other sex. I believe it is only at that point that women will have the moral strength needed not to put up with the pressures of fathers, husbands, and brothers, and will themselves be able to create, among their sex, that powerful weapon of modern social struggles, namely, association, in order to acquire civil and political rights-which are now denied to them, as they are to men interdicted for imbecility, madness, or delinquency. The existing laws inflict this atrocious humiliation on woman, because not only men but also women themselves consider woman as an eternal minor, and she will be able to come of age only when she will be sufficient unto herself through her own intelligence, skills, and moral strengths."