#italy

The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs. ↗

— Silvio Berlusconi

#ancient #bigger #clearly #every #filtered

We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#attack #bills #china #down #freedom

During my first month in Italy I lived a nomadic life. ↗

— Hugh Dalton

#first #i #italy #life #lived

It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time. ↗

— Philip Dunne

#beautiful #easy #england #italy #living

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished. ↗

— Dario Fo

#born #finished #inside #italy #man

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine. ↗

— Robin Leach

#add #italy #life #wine #work

I have a lot of brothers and sisters, and each movie has helped pay for tuition. And then I was like, I only have one left in college, so why am I doing this? But now I want to go back to Italy and live on a farm in Tuscany. ↗

— Rose McGowan

#back #brothers #college #doing #each

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy. ↗

— Ennio Morricone

#hollywood #i #italy #live #offered

erhaps it was the difference in age between the countries—America with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy restaurants; Italians living in endless contraction, in the artifacts of generations, in the bones of empires. ↗

— Jess Walter

#cowboys #empires #italy #age

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe. ↗

— Romano Prodi

#any #carries #europe #influence #italy