Italian Society Quotes

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

Italy is a country which is willing to submit itself to the worst governments. It is, as we know, a country ruled by disorder, cynicism, incompetence and confusion. Nevertheless we are aware of intelligence circulating in the streets like a vivid bloodstream.

For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him.

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

The emancipation of women was one of the central issues In the renewal of the Italian state and of the Italian society.

The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty.

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.