Ziggy Marley Quotes

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

The United States will have the honor of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity.

My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.

If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes.

Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

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.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

It is natural to have differences and still remain friends.

We won’t be very successful with the Chinese leadership [on human rights issues] if we’re in their face all the time.

If we were able to see people in other countries and learn about our differences, why would there be any misunderstandings? War would be a thing of the past.

We are hated throughout Europe and that hate must be cured by fear.

We should treat other countries the way we want to be treated.

Some people say the people I'm fighting are bums, but I don't see it like that.

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

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.

It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.

If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them.... Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is a place for courage and strength to express themselves in magnanimity and charity, and this is the place we must find.

I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?

The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate.

I want to have a president in the U.S. who tries to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.