Words matter. These are the best Beppe Grillo Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
This world – the Western world – has failed. We must have a plan B. We’re the plan B.
We are moderate, beautiful people, and we are the only thing left standing between Italy and the real extremists.
Vaccines have played a fundamental role in eradicating terrible illnesses such as polio, diphtheria, and hepatitis. However, they bring a risk associated with side-effects that are usually temporary and surmountable… but, in very rare cases, can be as severe as getting the same disease you’re trying to be immune to.
Europe is one thing. The euro is something else.
We want to destroy everything, not rebuild on the same rubble. We have different ideas. It is like any work. You have to have a clean slate. Then, you have a programme, a new way of thinking. It is a way of thinking. Not a restoration. Parties out. Citizens instead of parties.
Israel is frightening. Its behaviour is irresponsible.
The art of the compromise, which was the art of politics, is no longer valid. Compromise needs to be between citizens, not between Republicans and Democrats.
The old division of Left versus Right is dead. In the Internet age, it’s about citizens versus parliamentary relics.
If everyone in China is a socialist, from whom do they steal?
When China was only Communist, everyone received the Dalai Lama, but now that China is hyper-capitalist, he gets blacked out.
I no longer feel the spirit of Europe.
I’m so proud of being a populist!
It is so obvious that we are constantly monitored and manipulated both in advertising and in politics.
I am in favour of a different Europe, where each state can adopt its fiscal and monetary system.
Italy has turned its back on its political class, and a new language of community, identity, and honesty is filling the gap.
We became the first political movement in Italy, and the media didn’t even realize it.
For the Americans, laws are barriers to profits; it’s a different mentality.
Europe was born with Jean Monnet but then was progressively transformed.
My dream is universal income, with a completely different fiscal system to finance it.
It’s a very beautiful word, populism. I’m proud to be a populist.
Left and right in Italy, they’ve always pretended to fight.
We’re a movement of many people who are uniting from the bottom up. We don’t have structures, hierarchies, bosses, secretaries… No one gives us orders.
I want the Eurobond, a 20 per cent devalued euro for southern European countries, protecting our products against those arriving from abroad, and a revision of the 3 per cent deficit budgetary rule.
My role is that of the watchdog.
My anger is constructive.
Artificial intelligence is destroying the traditional world of work.
Left, right, populism… all are meaningless concepts.
In Italy, we have some of the best minds in the world, and we have let them all go abroad.
My comedy routines have always been about the health of the nation.
The Internet creates transparency, creates a change of mentality, brings people together.
When you have a debt that’s strangling you, you’re not growing.
One of our main objectives is to restore meritocracy within research and academia, where cronyism is also widespread. We also want to give money back to public research that is dying.
The ECB puts out money that is meant to help our banks, but they do not use it to finance our businesses, but they give it to them to buy back their debt, to help French and German banks.
