Giulio Andreotti famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Power wears out those who don't have it
-- Giulio Andreotti
I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.
-- Giulio Andreotti

#Life #Giants #Looks
Power tires only those who do not have it.
-- Giulio Andreotti

#Power #Tire
I have some state secrets I will take with me to paradise.
-- Giulio Andreotti

#Secret #Paradise #States
Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.
-- Giulio Andreotti

#Confusion
My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.
-- Giulio Andreotti

#Mother #Children #Father
My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.
-- Giulio Andreotti

#Justice #Way #Guilty
In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable.
-- Giulio Andreotti

#Church #Parables #Feels
If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.
-- Giulio Andreotti

#Lying #People #Twenties
Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.
-- Giulio Andreotti

#War
I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.
-- Giulio Andreotti

#World #Next #Should
You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right.
-- Giulio Andreotti

#Thinking #People #Sin
I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.
-- Giulio Andreotti

#Two #Germany
Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.
-- Giulio Andreotti

#Desire #Disease
We learn from the Gospel that when they asked Jesus what the truth was, he did not reply.
-- Giulio Andreotti

#Jesus
Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.
-- Giulio Andreotti

#Block #War #Views
In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.
-- Giulio Andreotti

#Rainy Day #Sunny Day #Sunny
The judges are a big problem. Law is equal for everyone, except for them.
-- Giulio Andreotti

#Law #Judging #Problem

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