Right people Quote by Lynne Truss

“Direct popular government of a state larger than a city state had already failed therefore in Italy, because as yet there was no public…

— H.G. Wells

“Print could be wielded by the purveyors of prejudice as well as by the combatants for civilization”

— Helmut Walser Smith

“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

“Italy is a country where anything not explicitly permitted is forbidden, and all that is forbidden is implicitly allowed.”

— Dario de Judicibus

“What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the Renaissance. The…

— Jaron Lanier

Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England…

— John Adams

“Printers are educated in the belief that when men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by…

— Walter Isaacson

“And looking like sex on a stick – if sex were Italian and the stick had an unfair amount of charisma.”

— Penny Reid

“...printing and the proliferation of written materials allowed ordinary people to be members of any number of relational communities.”

— Wendy Griswold

“...fundamental Italian cookery rule that less is more!”

— Francine Segan

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

“The truth, however, was that there was very little greatness. It was almost nonexistent, invisible. But you could be sure that the worst writers…

— Charles Bukowski