Freedom of expression Quote by Dario Fo

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom…

— Dario Fo

“In every aspect of Italian life, one of the key characteristics to get to grips with is that this is a nation at ease…

— Tim Parks

“People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for…

— Anonymous

“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…

— Mark Twain

I don't know how things stand in the thinking of the Italian parliament. The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.

— Pope Francis

We became the first political movement in Italy, and the media didn't even realize it.

— Beppe Grillo

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement…

— Mike McCurry

What we have seen in recent years in the United States is the church's rights to express itself, and to conduct its own affairs,…

— Bruce L. Shelley

“Just a few words, away from Rome, are enough to show your opposition to the church within your nation.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas…

— Adolf Hitler

I am damnably sick of Italy, Italian and Italians, outrageously, illogically sick.... I hate to think that Italians ever did anything in the way…

— James Joyce

“Nosey gossiping church members were sucking out my passion for life leaving me an irritable shell of what I felt called to do on…

— Anna Aquino