H. G. Wells Quotes

One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable

It's hard to hate up close. The more you get to know each other, the more common ground you can find and the more you can disagree without being disagreeable.

Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.

You can have a great, deep connection with somebody and still disagree with their actions.

It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.

It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.

It's much easier to be at peace than it is to hate somebody. It's much easier to love somebody than to fight with them.

We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

Ultimately, being open and respectful towards each other is much more powerful as a way to diffuse hatred and anger than, you know, layering on, you know, big walls and oppressive policies.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we've learned about love.

If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.

I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency."

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

We can't always agree on everything.

Sure, I've met with people I don't agree with.

Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them.

It doesn't do any good to argue. Be kind.

Even married people have differences of opinion, I'm told.

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.