Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes

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

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.

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

Social peace requires reciprocity.

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.

All men can live together, if they wish to.

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

We want a full peace, normalization in all fields.

God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.

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

There will be not only peace between us and the Arabs ... but close friendship and cooperation.

The individual and society have waged a relentless and bloody battle for ages, each striving for supremacy, because each was blind to the value and importance of the other.

In all your intercourse with the natives, treat them in the most friendly and conciliatory manner which their own conduct will admit.

The old notion: security brings peace. The new notion: peace brings security.

We do not believe that good relations with one country precludes good relations with another.

The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.

There is no such thing as a happy compromise. Israelis and Palestinians cannot become one happy family because they are not one, not happy and not family either. They are two unhappy families who must divide a small house into even smaller apartments. The first step, is to sign peace with clenched teeth, and after signing the contract, start working slowly on a gradual emotional de-escalation on both sides.

I don't know if we're doing the optimal things that we can to try and connect different people on the planet with different points of view and not be so angry at each other.

Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.

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

I never want any problems with anybody in this world.

Ultimately, being open and respectful towards each other is much more powerful as a way to diffuse hatred and anger than, you know, layering on, you know, big walls and oppressive policies.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice