Benny Gantz Quotes

The best religion is the most tolerant.

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

I am the President of Arabs and Druse as well as Jews.

Jerusalem had never been the site of the Jewish Temple

Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.

At this place, Jews have prayed throughout the generations, and it is fitting that the message of brotherhood should go out from here.

I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.

I enjoy mixed audiences, not one particular group. Short, tall, scientists, Jews, gentiles, whatever, as long as they breathe and like to laugh.

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.

Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.

Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together.

The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious and cultural freedom, to Jews, Parsis, several varieties of Christians, and Muslims.

Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.

I am a peace supporting Jew.

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.