Louis Farrakhan Quotes

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Peace will not be built, however, by people with bitterness in their hearts.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

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

We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. are capable of forgiveness and willing to see one another's point of view, but when matters become politicised, we're less able to do that.

I think we're moving toward moments of grace and understanding. And I think these things take time.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them.

History is not hatred.

If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other.