Reuven Rivlin Quotes

You don't promote the cause of peace by talking only to people with whom you agree.

Can we all get along?

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

Peace itself is not made by documents. Peace is made by good will among men.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

Now the question is, how can we make our two peoples, both of whom love peace, come closer together.

Let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

In face of political differences, contradictions and struggle, the Church preaches peace and co-operation among people holding various political views

If you want peace, you have to accept the other. Talk to the other, and accept that they have rights.

I think everybody can get along.

The depth of this conflict, which is more than one hundred years old, requires us to find a way to communicate... so that the residents of the Middle East, Jews and Arabs alike, can live not as if they were forced to live together, but rather destined to live together.

Every fight should be settled through love and dialogue.

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

Social peace requires reciprocity.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.