Matteo Salvini Quotes

Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts.

The people who know war, those who have experienced it ... I believe are the most earnest advocates of peace in the world.

It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence and the cultures of impunity and intolerance. Peace may indeed be a complex challenge, dependent on action in many fields and even a bit of luck from time to time. It may be a painfully slow process, and fragile and imperfect when it is achieved. But peace is in our hands. We can do it.

We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace.

There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.

You don't kill your way to peace.

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

We know more about war than we do about peace.

If it's radical to want an end to war and an end to violence, so that we can devote ourselves to the challenges of peace, then I'm pleased to call myself a radical.

But the real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.

Peace is hard, but we know that it is possible

What repeated follies are those repeated wars! You do not want to conquer and govern one another. Why, then, should you be continually employed in injuring and destroying one another? How many excellent things might have been done to promote the internal welfare of each country; what bridges, roads, canals, and other useful public works and institutions, tending to the common felicity, might have been made and established with the money and men foolishly spent during the last seven centuries by our mad wars in doing one another mischief! You are near neighbors, and each have very respectable qualities. Learn to be quiet and to respect each other's rights. You are all Christians.

I feel it is my duty to take every single opportunity I get to advocate for peace, no matter the circumstances of those meetings.

Anything war can do, peace can do better.

Peace is the language we must speak.

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

I am against all war.