Indro Montanelli

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

— Indro Montanelli

The only advice that I'm in the mood to give - and that I give regularly - to young people is this:…

— Indro Montanelli

Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.

— Indro Montanelli

You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.

— Indro Montanelli

Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is…

— Indro Montanelli

The love of power excludes all others.

— Indro Montanelli

Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.

— Indro Montanelli

[Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are…

— Indro Montanelli

Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of…

— Indro Montanelli

Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remain.…

— Indro Montanelli

Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur coat, spend more than all their European collegues.

— Indro Montanelli

Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.

— Indro Montanelli

I have never dreamt of contesting the Church her right to remain faithful to herself, meaning to the commandments that come from…

— Indro Montanelli

Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.

— Indro Montanelli

The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked.

— Indro Montanelli

Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.

— Indro Montanelli

It isn't necessary to be socialists in order to love Pertini. Whatever he says or does, smells of cleanliness, of loyalty and…

— Indro Montanelli

Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives priviliges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. The jackasses…

— Indro Montanelli

I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.

— Indro Montanelli

Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.

— Indro Montanelli

A real writer [...] looks not in another writer but himself.

— Indro Montanelli

Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity.

— Indro Montanelli

Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather…

— Indro Montanelli