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Marcello Pera
16 quotes
“As with the fall of other regimes, a new Resistance is needed, a new redemption and then a true, radical, merciless purge... The process has already begun and, for much of public opinion, has already ended with a conviction.”
Marcello Pera (born 1943) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: La Stampa, 19 July 1992, quoted in 'Sono "giustizialista". Da quando Marcello Pera è diventato garantista, iltafano.typepad.com, 17 May 2007
“I have read and reread all of Falcone's writings. He was a great man who saw things clearly. He did not like public prosecutors and judges being united in a single career and no longer believed in the mandatory nature of criminal prosecution, which, as it stands today, is nothing but a joke. I will say more: he would not have conducted the trials that Caselli subsequently did.”
Marcello Pera (born 1943) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Liana Milella, E il ricordo del giudice coraggio divide il fronte dell'antimafia, la Repubblica, 24 May 2001, p. 12
“Giovanni Gentile was a philosopher dedicated to an undertaking so powerful that it had not been seen for centuries: to conceive, shape, organise and disseminate an Italian philosophy, that is, a philosophy for Italy, a philosophy of Italy, according to a tradition of political thought that Gentile saw as beginning with Dante and ending with himself. (2004).”
Marcello Pera (born 1943) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted at the presentation of Giovanni Gentile, Discorsi parlamentari, Senate of the Italian Republic (editor), with an essay of Francesco Perfetti, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2004, p. 10.
“The parties must step down and raise their hands... immediately and without the cunning that accompanies the death throes of their agony. That would be a coup against democracy: trying to resist the will of the people. (1 February 1993)”
Marcello Pera (born 1943) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gianni Barbacetto, Campioni d'Italia, Marco Tropea editore. Citato in Sono "giustizialista". Da quando Marcello Pera è diventato garantista, iltafano.typepad.com, 17 May 2007.
“Guaranteeism, like any preconceived ideology, is pernicious. (29 March 1993)”
Marcello Pera (born 1943) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gianni Barbacetto, Campioni d'Italia, Marco Tropea editore. Citato in Sono "giustizialista". Da quando Marcello Pera è diventato garantista, iltafano.typepad.com, 17 May 2007.
“Judges must continue their work. No one is asking that prominent defendants receive different treatment from other defendants. (5 March 1993)”
Marcello Pera (born 1943) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gianni Barbacetto, Campioni d'Italia, Marco Tropea editore. Citato in Sono "giustizialista". Da quando Marcello Pera è diventato garantista, iltafano.typepad.com, 17 May 2007.
“Revolution has strict rules and tight deadlines. (26 September 1993)”
Marcello Pera (born 1943) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gianni Barbacetto, Campioni d'Italia, Marco Tropea editore. Citato in Sono "giustizialista". Da quando Marcello Pera è diventato garantista, iltafano.typepad.com, 17 May 2007.
“Berlusconi is halfway between a dapper cabaret artist and a television salesman selling kitchenware, something that would have inspired and distressed poor Fellini. (1994)”
Marcello Pera (born 1943) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Michele De Lucia, Siamo alla frutta, Kaos 2005. ISBN 8879531530
“An ill wind is blowing across Europe. It is the idea that we just need to wait and the troubles will disappear on their own, or that we can be accommodating even to those who threaten us and we will get away with it. It is the same wind that blew in Munich in 1938.”
Marcello Pera (born 1943) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Senza radici, 2004
“In Europe, the population is declining, opening the door to uncontrolled immigration and leading to a mixed-race society.”
Marcello Pera (born 1943) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meeting for friendship among people, Rimini, 22 August 2005; quoted in Pera: «Occidente in grave crisi morale», Corriere.it
“We are committed to reaffirming the value of Western civilisation as a source of universal and indispensable principles, opposing, in the name of a common historical and cultural tradition, any attempt to build a Europe that is alternative or opposed to the United States.”
Marcello Pera (born 1943) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Manifesto per l'Occidente, 23 February 2006
“It is nothing new that Italian relativists, and not only them, try to use Europe, where relativism is dominant, to achieve their goals at the national level. It is the hypocrisy with which many speak of Europe. [...] Unfortunately, this Europe is diminished in itself, and it is from this Europe that the worst vices are imported, circumventing national sovereignty.”
Marcello Pera (born 1943) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Avvenire, 11 December 2007
“For Kant, there are no different religions, but rather different forms of belief in divine revelation [...] among which Christianity, as far as we know, is the most appropriate.”
Marcello Pera (born 1943) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Perché dobbiamo dirci cristiani, p. 43; quoted in Alessandro Roveri, La conversione di Marcello Pera al cattolicesimo, Il ponte, January-February 2009
“(About Francesco De Martino) A great scholar and a great politician.”
Marcello Pera (born 1943) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Il cordoglio dell'Italia politica "De Martino, politico nobile", Repubblica.it, 18 November 2002
“The left hates our culture and our civilisation to such an extent that it is willing to hand it over, as it is doing, to Islam. Its foreign policy is acquiescence to terrorist countries and groups; its domestic policy is free entry for all immigrants and cheap citizenship; its social policy is multiculturalism; therefore, its urban policy is to close the American base in Vicenza! Yesterday, today, always against the West. And since the West also and above all means Christianity, the left, in order to be anti-Western, has chosen anti-Christianity, that is, secularism. This is the new frontier, the new dividing line between us and the left.”
Marcello Pera (born 1943) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Libero, 3 February 2007
“In everyday language, a secular person is someone who does not believe, while a secularist is someone who believes that those who believe have no reason to believe. This is not a tongue twister. Secular people do not base their worldview on revealed faith; secularists believe that any revealed faith is meaningless, except in a trivial, private sense, like a tic or a bad habit. The former does not believe, or cannot believe, but recognises that faith is a dimension of human experience that serves a purpose, such as giving meaning to life, attributing a role to humans in the world, and interpreting evil. The latter, the secularist, denies this dimension: for them, faith is an illusion or a misunderstanding or a failure of reason.”
Marcello Pera (born 1943) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: La Stampa, 19 January 2008