Errico Malatesta Quotes

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.

Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

It's much easier to be at peace than it is to hate somebody. It's much easier to love somebody than to fight with them.

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

Hate doesn't end hate. Love ends hate.

Hatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

Hate won't solve anything.

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

Each time you send love in response to hate, you diffuse the hate.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.

Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.

Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.

Hating people isn’t a productive way of living. So what’s the point in hating anyone? There’s enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.

Love your enemy. It will not only puzzle him, But finally illumine him.

Just bring love. Everybody keeps bringing violence, let's bring love.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.