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But influence in society is a capital that must be used sparingly, lest it disappear.
“Nostalgia - the nostalgia for our roots - is a healthy feeling, since people with no roots are lost, and a person with no roots is sick. Roots give us the strength to move forward, to bear fruit, to blossom”
― Hope: The Autobiography
― Hope: The Autobiography
“So we took our books and went back over a hundred years of Italian history in search of a "just war." It's not our fault if we didn't find one.”
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“To try to reduce democracy to technocracy, and to expel from it the Gospel inspiration together with all faith in the supra-material, supra-mathematical, and supra-sensory realities, would be to try to deprive it of its very blood. Democracy can only live on Gospel inspiration.”
― Man and the State
― Man and the State
“Today, when I meet married couples, I always say: Go ahead and argue, break a few plates if you think it helps - to some extent, that's quite normal - but never do it in front of the children, and try to make up before the day is over. Because the real danger is that of the cold war the next day.”
― Hope: The Autobiography
― Hope: The Autobiography
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