War in Val d'Orcia Quotes

“These—the shared, simple acts of everyday life—are the realities on which international understanding can be built.”
― Iris Origo, War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944

“Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.”
― Iris Origo, War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944

“There is a bitter irony for listeners here in the exhortations of the BBC to the Italian people to rid themselves of the Germans: so might one urge a sheep to rid itself of a wolf.”
― Iris Origo, War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944

“He was not being a propagandist, but simply stating a creed, a creed to which he brought an absolutely single-minded, self-denying devotion, with no half-shades of humour, self-criticism or doubt.”
― Iris Origo, War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944

“Mussolini, like all other dictators, is betrayed by his own men.”
― Iris Origo, War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944