You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

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

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

[Indira Gandhi] answered cautiously at first. Then she opened up like a flower and the conversation flowed along without obstacles, in mutual sympathy.