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Gianfranco Fini
16 quotes
“Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots.”
Gianfranco Fini (born 1952) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: published on il Giornale, 5 January 1990
“Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.”
Gianfranco Fini (born 1952) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: from an interview given to Alberto Statera published in La Stampa in April 1994
“I think the Mussolinean institution of a third way alternative to communism is currently still very relevant.”
Gianfranco Fini (born 1952) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Corrado De Cesare, Il fascista del Duemila. Le radici del camerata Gianfranco Fini, Kaos Edizioni, 1995, .
“If you ask me:"An openly homosexual teacher can work as a teacher? I say no. (...) I'll not do anything to discriminate you, but I'll also not do anything to put your type of relationship on the same level of the natural family.”
Gianfranco Fini (born 1952) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fini: un gay non puo' fare il maestro, Il Corriere della Sera, 9 April 1998.
“After 1994, we did many things. We had Fiuggi, there was a confrontation. I'd say that today one cannot say it for sure. Today, I would not say it again [that Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.]”
Gianfranco Fini (born 1952) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: La Stampa, 23 January 2002, p. 7.
“Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons.”
Gianfranco Fini (born 1952) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Corriere della Sera, Fini: diamo il diritto di voto agli immigrati, 7 October 2003.
“Fascism was part of the absolute evil. (...) We have to denounce the ashaming pages in the history of our past. (...) There included all the pages related to the discrimination and the persecution of jews and, more in general, of minoritires. And therefore that one [The Italian Social Republic of Salò] is also included.”
Gianfranco Fini (born 1952) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During his trip to Israel Fini in Israele "Il fascismo fu parte del male assoluto", 24 November 2003.
“Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore”
Gianfranco Fini (born 1952) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Corriere della Sera Magazine, 9 March 2006.
“If we look at Somalia, Ethiopia and Lybia, to how they're reduced now, and to how they were before, with Italy, I think that this page of history will be rewritten and there will be a positive evaluation of the role of Italy”
Gianfranco Fini (born 1952) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: October 2006; cited in Alberto Piccinini, Lezioni di storia, il manifesto, 9 settembre 2008, p. 12.
“If there are rights or duties of people which are not guaranteed because they're part of a [de facto] union and not of a family, there will be the need of a legislative action to remove the disparity. Obviously, when talking about people I refer to everyone [including homosexuals].”
Gianfranco Fini (born 1952) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fini: "Una legge per coppie di fatto e gay", Il Giornale, 27 December 2006.
“Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.”
Gianfranco Fini (born 1952) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: RaiNews24, Roma, 2007-11-16.
“I don't think that the United States are ready for a presidency as the one of Obama, at least because he would be the first black president.”
Gianfranco Fini (born 1952) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: interview by Gianni Riotta Tv7, RaiUno channel, 7 March 2008.
“Resistants were on the right side, Salò Republic's combatants on the wrong one. (...) One cannot equate who was fighting for a right cause of equality and freedom, and who, apart of goodfaith, was on the wrong side. (...) The judgement of the Right [on Fascism] have to be negative, due to freedom limitation. (...) We cannot deny ourselves history, and Fascism was a dictatorship that denied some fundamental freedoms.”
Gianfranco Fini (born 1952) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: cited in «La destra si riconosca nell'antifascismo», Il Corriere della Sera, 13 September 2008.
“The accession of Turkey [in the European Union] would be a sign of the full compatibility of Islam with democracy.”
Gianfranco Fini (born 1952) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: cited in Italy’s FM: EU should keep Constitution vote separate from Turkey’s bid, euractiv.com, 9 May 2005.
“[On Mussolini as the greatest political leader of the century] The answer is in the things I've done in the last years. I don't think the same anymore, I would be schyzophrenic.”
Gianfranco Fini (born 1952) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: cited in Corriere della sera, 26 March 2009, p. 14.
“I didn't believe that Giorgia Meloni could recompose a political community that had also been human: I was wrong, she has built a small authentic masterpiece, if today the right wing is the governing right wing, it is due to that political intuition to restore political dignity to the right wing.”
Gianfranco Fini (born 1952) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Fini, mea culpa su Meloni: "Ha fatto un capolavoro, mi sono sbagliato" (December 5, 2024)