Peace And Tolerance Quotes

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.

In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that refugees can return home. In my experience, going home is the deepest wish of most refugees.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace and development than a world divided along religious, ethnic or cultural lines. In each nation, and among all nations, we must work to promote unity based on our shared humanity.

We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.

Peace is a culture that we create by putting it in the curriculum for young people, through creating this next generation where young people get a chance to go across borders, across cultures, to learn more about each other's life, to create a global community, learn about opportunities for helping others. It's investing in peace and tolerance training, ending the gap between rich and poor.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world - wrote reams of commentary [after 9/11]. Their articles were all about Islam saving Aristotle and the zero, which medieval Muslim scholars had done more than eight hundred years ago; about Islam being a religion of peace and tolerance, not the slightest bit violent. These were fairy tales, nothing to do with the real world I knew.

I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor.... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.