Silvio Berlusconi Quotes

We believe in peace, but we are not pacifists. Sometimes we have to use force

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

I think war should be illegal.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

The United States will never take part in an aggressive war.

The demilitarization of Europe—where large swaths of the general public and political class are averse to military force and the risks that go with it—has gone from the blessing of the 20th century to an impediment to achieving real security and lasting peace in the 21st.

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

There are laws for peace as well as war.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq.