Sherwood Schwartz Quotes

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

Anybody who resorts to violence will have no friends in the United States.

If tolerance is the best we can do in this moment, then by all means let's be tolerant. But by stopping there, by merely tolerating each other, we miss so much.

The majority of Jews and Arabs want to get along. Don't let a few bad apples ruin it for everyone.

I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.

Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others.

If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.

We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.

Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.

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

To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason.

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.

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

We will not have peace by afterthought.