Fran Lebowitz Quotes

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

We really care about keeping the peace with people around us. We grew differently, that's all.

To work for better understanding among people, one does not have to be a former president sitting at a fancy conference room table. Peace can be made in the neighborhoods, the living rooms, the playing fields, and the classrooms of our country.

That's how they manage to live together, a billion of them, in reasonable peace. They are not perfect, of course. They know how to fight and lie and cheat each other, and all the things that all of us do. But more than any other people in the world, the Indians know how to love one another.

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

I once more want to impress upon all Muslims that they should fully co-operate with the Government and the officials in protecting their Hindu neighbor.

It will give satisfaction to the people; and be a happy means, under providence, of preventing popular commotions, mobs, bloodshed and civil war.

I'm always good mates with everyone and stay on the good side of people. I never let any bad blood between anyone.

I thank God I don't have a problem with any person. Nobody wants to have a problem with another person. I don't want it either.

I never want any problems with anybody in this world.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

It's more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them.

In the areas which have been disturbed people are living cordially with the Security Forces. In areas like Gulu people are living peacefully. There is scrupulous respect of human rights.

I believe that anarchists should agree to disagree but not to fight with each other.

There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.

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.

Before we find world peace, we gotta find peace in the war on the streets.

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.

Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

We have to adopt a wider perspective, and always find common things between the people of north, east, south, and west. Conflict comes from the basis of differencs.

They benefit from all these people, "I just don't like the fighting. Could you stop the shouting? All I want to do is just get along." They're easily able to bulldoze large groups of people into laying down and letting it happen in the hope that this will be peace, in the hope that there will be no confrontations, in the hope that the shouting will stop.