Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Giovanni Falcone

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian judge Giovanni Falcone.
Last updated on November 19, 2024.
Giovanni Falcone

Giovanni Falcone was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Sicily, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian Mafia. After a long and distinguished career, culminating in the Maxi Trial in 1986–1987, on 23 May 1992, Falcone was assassinated by the Corleonesi Mafia in the Capaci bombing, on the A29 motorway near the town of Capaci.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once. — © Giovanni Falcone
He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with his head held high dies only once.
The important thing is not establishing if you are afraid or not but it's to be able to live with your own fear without being influenced by it. Otherwise it's not courage anymore, but recklessness.
One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have the right alliances, because one is not given support. In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect.
If you are scared you die every day. If you are not scared, you die only once.
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