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I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more, unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom.

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The Italian culture and values have significantly shaped who I am, and I would never intentionally demean or degrade the very culture that has been so integral to my life.

— Tim Ryan

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

— Mario Monti

I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.

— Klaus Fuchs

I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

— Al D'Amato

In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.

— Hans Frank

And my father, after all, was a nationalist.

— Heinrich Mann

✗Opposing Perspectives

Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet.

— Alberto Sordi

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

— Georges Simenon