Centuries Quote by Dario Fo

“Men at the close of the dark Ages may have been rude and unlettered and unlearned in everything but wars with heathen tribes, more…

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The time to recognize the power of community is here again. Not as some romanticized renaissance from times past, but as a necessarily new…

— Judith Hanson Lasater

The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.

— Norman Foster

Who would have thought we would be part of a winning coalition in Molise and Sicily? That we would win in places like Siena,…

— Matteo Salvini

I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

— Matteo Salvini

In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Anarchy works. Italy has proved it for a thousand years.

— Edward Abbey

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical…

— Benito Mussolini

I was raised in Italy for the early part of my life, in a relatively small village near Siena, and everyone worked there, from…

— Mark Getty

“Townspeople themselves were eager for change and experiment. From their point of view, Catholicism was tied in with customs and festivals that made sense…

— Michael Mullett

“The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“In 63 BCE that was around a million men spread across the capital and throughout Italy, as well as a few beyond. In practice,…

— Mary Beard