Giampaolo Pansa Quotes
1935–2020 Italy
Giampaolo Pansa (1935–2020) was an Italian journalist, writer, and historian.
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Someone said of Sergio Mattarella: in politics, he is tenacious and persistent, like a falling drop of water.
We are a patient and hardworking people. Yet it is wise not to forget the old adage: sometimes even ants, in their own small way, get pissed off.
I have learned that judges should not be criticized. They are a very powerful force and jealous of their autonomy.
We are used to saying that we must defend ourselves in trials and not from trials. Yet I would like to see how the many politicians who preach this would behave.
(About the daily newspaper la Repubblica A guerrilla paper that goes into battle every day to destroy Berlusconi.
When I hear Grillo shouting, Italians, it sends a chill down my spine, because it reminds me of someone who shouted the same word with the same emphasis from a balcony in Palazzo Venezia.
(To q:it:Angelo D'Orsi who criticized him for the absence of any footnotes in his revisionist texts on Fascism) You sell 2,000 copies and I sell 40,000... do you want footnotes too?
Words can turn into stones, stones into bullets. It has already happened: Italy was held captive by terrorism for almost twenty years. It is a danger that could return, and I would not want Grillo, even against his plans and programs, to become the vehicle for this terrible evil.
(About Mario Capanna) In short, a leader of protest: without restraint, but also without the protection of party apparatus, always forced to be at the forefront, to make mistakes, and to pay the price personally.
The left wing party has always told lies, starting with the invasion of Hungary and continuing through the Popular Front campaign. All parties lie, but some more than others. The Italian Communist Party, however, has always lied.
Ah, objective journalism! How many times have we deceived readers by waving this phantom flag. (p. 49)
A yellow-green government? It is not a trivial center-right government, but a government of terrorists. A terrorist government that wants to destroy everything, wipe out Italy and its democracy. We are on the brink of an abyss.