Leonard Cohen Quotes

History is not hatred.

We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.

We [people] need to stop lumping folks together and start living together. Otherwise, we're going to kill each other off because you don't believe what I believe. That's crazy.

Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we look deeply, we see that the desire of the other person is exactly our own desire - to have peace, to be able to have a chance to live.

Just remember, Someone is on your side (our side) Someone else is not While we're seeing our side Maybe we forgot: they are not alone. No one is alone.

We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.

People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

Can we all get along?

It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

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

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life.

One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

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

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

I'm not here to try and replace anyone or compete with anyone.

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

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

You can be for someone without being against someone else.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.

You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.

The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.