Giovanni Floris Quotes
born 1967 Italy
q:it:Giovanni Floris (born 1967), Italian journalist, writer, and television presenter.
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Pragmatism helps you achieve your goals, but it also makes you forget them.
Politics on TV can be very easy, even for politicians, or for politicians who pretend not to be politicians: populist politicians.
The truth exists, but we can never know if it is what we are saying.
Everything has a future, if you invent something.
Power is not contested, it is conquered.
I have always believed that being on the right means defending opportunities for everyone, while being on the left means working hard to ensure that everyone has more opportunities.
With Ballarò, I learned that there will always be someone who will describe what you do in a negative way. They say that video goes to your head. For me, it was a humbling experience.
I prepare thoroughly and set myself a goal. And I usually manage to achieve it.
The web was born as an attempt to open up the world and everyone's minds, but it has been reduced to a world where each of us seeks confirmation of what we already think.
The religious person proclaims the truth, the journalist seeks it. And if he believes he has found it, he must verify it, not trust it immediately. The thread of truth is a necessity for the journalist who reports: seeking the reason behind things means concentrating, analysing, studying, and giving importance to the words one is using.
The absolute lack of trust we have in the words and power of school to solve problems is condemning this country to decline. We have now shifted our focus from what can be given in terms of skills to what can be spent in terms of money: this is causing infinite damage to society, which is becoming permeated with the certainty that money can solve everything.
I am sure that we should not be elitist. But the idea that because those who are in power now are not doing a good job, they can be replaced by anyone else because they are all the same, is a dangerous idea for the construction of a society. The idea that money is seen as a symbol of sin, that any step away from poverty or simplicity is a step away from purity, is a very dangerous idea.