Matteo Salvini Quotes

I was taught, growing up, that there are two ends of the political spectrum: left and right. But there's so much more than that. For me, it's about liberty versus authoritarianism.

You subscribe politics to it. I subscribe freedom to it.

All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?

When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

You cannot have socialism without democracy.

In every society liberals are not very popular. Liberalism is not a populist movement.

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to be like each other.

I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest, than to belong to any party, further than to do justice to all, and to promote the interests of my country

ßome would not be governed by white men, and some would not be governed by black men, and some would not be governed by mulattoes; but the truth was they did not want to be governed by anybody

That's what politics is. It's the story of what's happening, what does it mean, what's the conclusion, who are the interesting characters?

I'm not going to be intimidated by people or identity politics. I think that's a dead end.

Politics lives in people, ideas live in people, they live in the concrete struggles that people have.