Rocco Buttiglione

I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to…

— Rocco Buttiglione

For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the…

— Rocco Buttiglione

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

— Rocco Buttiglione

John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in…

— Rocco Buttiglione

If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which…

— Rocco Buttiglione

The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care…

— Rocco Buttiglione

Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should…

— Rocco Buttiglione

I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.

— Rocco Buttiglione

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

— Rocco Buttiglione

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion…

— Rocco Buttiglione

On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children…

— Rocco Buttiglione

The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no.

— Rocco Buttiglione

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is…

— Rocco Buttiglione

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

— Rocco Buttiglione

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.

— Rocco Buttiglione

That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to…

— Rocco Buttiglione

I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I…

— Rocco Buttiglione