John Hume Quotes

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

Anybody that's ever been to Israel and to Palestine knows that you can't look at a person and tell if they're Israeli or Palestinian. You can assume. But I've seen Palestinians who look Swedish, and I've seen Israelis who are black.

No matter what, everyone will go through a disagreement - that's what makes us all different.

Islam and the West have clashed in the past and have not clashed. There is nothing inevitable about it.

In my early England days, there was a bit of tension with captain Nasser Hussain.

The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it.

I just don't believe that there's any way that you're ever gonna get one peace, because everybody has different ways of seeing life.

There's conflict in every story.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

We can't always agree on everything.

Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

My identity comprises of more than just my faith. I am a proud Muslim, but I am also a liberal, a Briton, a Pakistani, a Londoner, a father, a product of the globalised world who speaks English, Arabic and Urdu.

Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is friction and conflict.

You never want conflict. But sometimes conflict is inevitable.

There is nothing as potentially polarizing as religion.

Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

… mongrel nation

We are a multicultural society in a continuous state of abrasion.

The idea of India is not based on language, not on geography, not on ethnicity and not on religion. The idea of India is of one land embracing many. You can be many things and one thing: you can be a good Keralite, a good Muslim and a good Indian all at once.

Foreigners are not like the people I am used to here.

Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive feature of our relations to others and also be seen as something that is merely to be expected in the light of the best explanations we have of how such disagreement arises.

The idea that all Israelis are villains is a childish idea. Israel is the most deeply divided, argumentative society. You'll never find two Israelis that agree with one another - it's hard to find even one who agrees with himself or herself.