Gaetano Salvemini Quotes

Italy, Politician
September 8, 1873 – September, 6, 1957.

Gaetano Salvemini was an Italian anti-fascist politician, historian and writer. Born in a family of modest means, he became an acclaimed historian both in Italy and abroad, in particular in the United States, after he was forced into exile by Mussolini's Fascist regime.

The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.

Gaetano Salvemini
The historian amputates reality.

Gaetano Salvemini
- Reality
- Historian

In actual fact, it is the State, i.e., the taxpayer who has become responsible to private enterprise. In Fascist Italy the State pays for the blunders of private enterprise Profit is private and individual. Loss is public and social.

Gaetano Salvemini