Harmonious Society Quotes

As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?

It is theoretically and practically impossible to build any community apart from love and justice. If only one of these two is focused upon, an inevitable extremism and perversion follow.

In the East, the main object is to have a well-ordered society so that everybody can have maximum enjoyment of his freedoms. This freedom can only exist in an ordered state and not in a natural state of contention and anarchy.

The ancients knew of no nations that could fuse many discordant elements into one society.

Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.

For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.

A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.

Australians want progression, Australians want equal rights, they want safer, more compassionate, more harmonious communities, and we're not allowing it to progress in that way. It's very disappointing, knowing Tony Abbott's conservative views, he's clearly not the person to be leading Australia in the present or the future.

Unity is Obama's theme.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly, it seems the highest order of contradiction that, in order to achieve nonviolence, we must first break with it in overcoming its root causes. Therein lies our only hope.

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings.

On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence

Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society.

People must have freedom and at the same time they must have security. They must not be using freedom to fight with each other. When they have security of the mind, their fears will subside, and their mistrust of others will also decline. There will be no need to worry that somebody will be looking at you with jealousy. They won't have to worry that someone will report some lies to their superiors and get them into trouble. This fear of being unjustly punished would disappear and I believe confidence and trust will mount and people will have more love and respect towards one another.

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

All Iraqis should live under one roof and for one goal.

Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.

I think the message of peace is for everyone.

The lessons we have begun to learn make me hopeful, that human beings will become friendlier, more harmonious, less harmful. Compassion and the seeds of peace will be able to flourish. At the same time, every individual is responsible to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes alone are not enough; we have to take responsibility. Large human movements spring from individual human initiatives