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born 1935 Italy
Corrado Augias OMRI (born 1935) is an Italian journalist, writer and TV host. He was also a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999 for the Democratic Party of the Left.
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I like that the Catholic Church is less concerned with Italian politics, something it has done in a suffocating manner for years.
Today the issue is more dramatic than expected, given that state liberalism devoid of customary references becomes a mere mirror image of the most brutal bicameral system.
In the Constitution of 1948, the adjective "sacred" is used only twice: one of the two times is used to say that «the defense of the homeland is the sacred duty of the citizen».
I often go to talk in schools. Out of a class of 25 boys and girls I see two or three who have the spark. The rest is there, like goats.
Naples is a fundamental stage, I tell it in its contradictions and in its extreme vitality, even there [...], Naples and the Neapolitans represent for better or worse an Italy squared.
Language is a brilliant convention, words mean something only because we all agree that it should mean. (p. 11)
Crimes that present aspects that have never been fully clarified (and never will be) are the most intense, from a narrative point of view. (2007, p. 94)
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