Ciriaco De Mita Quotes

1928–2022

Luigi Ciriaco De Mita (2 February 1928 – 26 May 2022) was an Italian politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Italy from April 1988 to July 1989. A member of Christian Democracy (DC), De Mita served as its secretary and leader from May 1982 until February 1989, becoming one of the most influential politicians in the country, as well as one of the most prominent members of DC's left-wing.

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If something difficult seems easy to you, it means you haven't understood anything.

I believe in words. God gave humans the power of speech so that they could communicate. A person's morality is the relationship between their words and their intentions.

We have become a country that does not think, does not grow, no longer has hope, and is drowning in amoralism, which is worse than immorality.

Some people might be surprised, but I don't have any prejudices against Di Pietro either.
Provided he shakes off the delusion that he is God's judge.

[Avellino] It's a city where intellectuals and people of culture hide, and those who aren't people of culture thrive.

Politics is [politics] if it envisions the new; there is no politics that does not envisage the new.

The building block of democratic renewal is the community.

When I die, I will continue to speak.

It's not that Taviani was a man of reflection. Rather, he was a pragmatic man. [5]

In politics, ideas are important, but to put those ideas into practice, you have to convince others to behave in a way that will make them a reality.