Ennio Flaiano famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication media, it's no longer the same, it's nourished by other myths, it sells extremely well, it has ridiculed good sense and it's spreading its terrifying power.
-- Ennio Flaiano

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There are two kinds of fascists: fascists and anti-fascists.
-- Ennio Flaiano

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Fascists divide in two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists
-- Ennio Flaiano

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One day fascism will be treated with psychoanalysis.
-- Ennio Flaiano

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We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
We brought the religious leaders and the secular development workers together in one room. We asked the religious leaders what are your reservations about development workers? And we asked the development workers, what are your reservations about religious leaders? It turns out that most of the problems are not really problems at all, but rather misunderstandings, misconceptions, and mis-communications.
The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.
With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.
[This is the] very first condition which has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda: a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with...
The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down.
Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.
Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.
It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting but it shines with significance. When each moment, each perception is brought out with care, unfolded like a precious gem from its layers of the softest tissue paper and laid in front of the beloved â€” turned this way and that, examined, considered.

Ennio Flaiano famous quotes

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