Ernesto Galli della Loggia Quotes
born 1942 Italy
Ernesto Galli della Loggia (born 1942) is an Italian university professor, historian, and journalist.
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By now, the only thing that seems to keep us together is the desire to share the state budget, to carve up the spoils.
Reclaiming this past and our own tradition in order to rediscover ourselves: this is the urgent task facing a country that knows and thinks.
In short, science as such is in no way a guarantee of wisdom or humanity.
If God exists, if there is a revelation, it cannot be anything other than that of Jesus Christ. Only here is there this moving solidarity with huma condition. You may not believe it, but all this is unparalleled.
With the Lega ideology, you can be an excellent mayor in Varese, and even in Verona, but you can't govern Italy. [...] With the Lega Nord ideology, at best, you can be in government, but that is something entirely different from governing.
Knowledge, Past and Beauty are the three great perspectives that have always defined and, in many ways, encompass our entire history. For centuries, these three perspectives have kept this small Mediterranean peninsula at the centre of the world's attention, carrying the name of Italy beyond all borders.
In reality, the 'Padania' idea is a bluff that, so far, only the foolish timidity of the 'Italian' political forces has failed to 'see', and which Bossi is using for the sole purpose of highlighting his regional commitment and his electoral stronghold. However, in all other respects, it is utterly devoid of substance among the Lega Nord electorate itself.