There is no great difference in the reality of one country or another, because it is always people you meet everywhere. They may look different or be dressed differently, or may have a different education or position. But they are all the same. They are all people to be loved. They are all hungry for love. —Mother Teresa More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody. —Jean-Jacques Rousseau More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country. —Edgar Y. Harburg More about this quote Tags: history immigrants Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people. —John Steinbeck More about this quote Tags: hatred comfort immigrants Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you really want the last word in an argument, try saying, "I guess you're right. —Unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Jews and Arabs should sit down and settle their differences like good Christians. —Warren Robinson Austin More about this quote Tags: differences Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We cannot force those we want to forgive into accepting our forgiveness. They might not be able or willing to do so. They may not even know or feel that they have wounded us. We can only change ourselves. Forgiving others is first and foremost healing our own hearts. —Henri J.M. Nouwen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk. —Eleanor Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: death cooperation together Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An enemy is a person whose story we have not heard. —Gene Knudsen Hoffman More about this quote Tags: fear enemies hatred Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
During the Civil War Abraham Lincoln had occasion at an official reception to refer to the Southerners rather as erring human beings than as foes to be exterminated. An elderly lady, a fiery patriot, rebuked him for speaking kindly of his enemies when he ought to be thinking of destroying them. "Why, madam," said Lincoln, "do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not take sides; if you take sides, you are trying to eliminate half of reality, which is impossible. For many years the United States has been trying to describe the Soviet Union as the evil side. . . . If we look at America very deeply, we see the Soviet Union. And if we look deeply at the Soviet Union, we see America. If we look deeply at the rose, we see the garbage; if we look deeply at the garbage, we see the rose. In this international situation, each side is pretending to be the rose and calling the other side garbage. —Thích Nhất Hạnh More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly — that is the first law of nature. —Voltaire More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's a saying in the Middle East that a foreign journalist who comes there and stays a week goes home to write a book in which he presents a pat solution to all of the Middle East's problems. If he stays a month, he writes a magazine article filled with "if's" and "but's" and "on the other hand's." If he stays a year, he writes nothing at all, for the complexities and paradoxes of this explosive area have left him bewildered and confused. —From a 1962 editorial in the Saturday Evening Post More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another; they argue because they hold different goals. —William H. Whyte Jr. More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry. —Lyman Abbott More about this quote Tags: children Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email