Harmonious Community Quotes

When the people share everything in the state, then will we truly reach the goal of the Min Sheng Principle, which is Confucius' hope of a 'great commonwealth.'

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness.

When we respect ourselves, our lives change because the conflict in our mind ends. Then the relationship with our beloved also changes, and there will be peace in our family, in our friendships, in our community, and so on. Just imagine what kind of planet this would be if everybody respected themselves and everybody else?

Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state?

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

I want a kinder, gentler nation.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.