Amos Oz Quotes

In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.

There is tolerance within our community, Muslims and Christians living together in harmony. These traditional values we have should be enhanced.

We have lived for thousands of years together, Muslims and Christians; we are part of the same society.

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.

The main hope of harmony in our troubled world lies rather in the plurality of our identities, which intertwine with each other and are resistant to drastic divisions

We do not wish, we do not need to expel the Arabs and take their place. All our aspirations are built upon the assumption — proven throughout all our activity in the Land — that there is enough room in the country for ourselves and the Arabs.

When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other.

We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.

Once, there was a time in Jerusalem of brotherhood and peace: cultures and languages lived side by side and not one at the expense of the other.

Here in North Jersey, our Muslim community is essential to our social fabric.

It is man - whether believer or non-believer - who is responsible for global unrest. And it is human beings who have to learn to co-exist in the 21st century, outside of divisive social constructs, religious or otherwise.

Peace is an idea born from hope and the desire to see your children raise a family, walk in a market, and engage in simple pleasures of everyday life without fear.

Love thy neighbor is difficult. That's why everybody - wars, you know. It's the hardest. And it's the most important. And respect thy neighbor. Love and respect. It means respect, really. Respect thy neighbor. Respect the other, the different.

... if you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries?

Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

I have friends among the Christians, whom I love, and never for a moment have I thought of attacking their Christianity.

I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.