Lester B. Pearson Quotes

We need more people who love humanity and the world, people who want to understand each other.

I think that's important: to know 'the other,' as a means of coming to understanding.

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

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.

Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

It's hard to come up with a 'quote' about myself. Perhaps I could say that most of my writing has been concerned with understanding between people. Whether of different races, or religions, or even in the same family I tried in my books... to deal with the subject of understanding the other fellow.

Even if someone doesn't look like you or you don't know people like this in your real life, you get to know them and you get to see their humanity and you get to empathize with them. Our hope is that through empathy that can spark change. We hope people start talking to each other and our show sparks conversation because we need to start talking to each other, not at each other.

My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . .

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

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

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

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.

I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

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.

Everybody is a human being. We should be able to coexist with one another.

You don't see people that are willing to say 'You know what, you might be different politically, but let's find some common ground, let's find ways that we're actually similar.' We just assume immediately that we have nothing in common, what can even talk to that person about.

I like people. I like to speak to people, engage with people.

There's a lot of people in this world, and it's important to learn about them.