Orhan Pamuk Quotes

I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I don't think it's a binary opposition across the board in humans and I think I'm an example that it's not. I'm hosting gay marriage rallies and I have tons of guns at home. There's a lot of middle ground in the world and I'm one of those people.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

I love diversity.

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

I don't accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Above all there is our fixed joint determination to build a strong and united Fiji, rich in diversity and pampered with tolerance, goodwill and understanding.

We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.

That differences of race, color, and creed are natural, and that diverse groups, institutions, and ideas are stimulating factors in the development of man; That to promote harmony in diversity is a responsible task of religion and statesmanship; That since no individual can express the whole truth, it is essential to treat with understanding and good will those whose views differ from our own; That by the testimony of history intolerance is the door to violence, brutality and dictatorship; and That the realization of human interdependence and solidarity is the best guard of civilization.

We need not think alike to love alike.

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

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

Everyone needs to understand that we were meant to live together in this country. We have to get to know one another; even if we don't agree, we have to enable each side to express itself.

Our differences needn't divide us, but unity takes work.

We have to nurture and support the idea of pluralism.

There is some truth in everything. Views and opinions are different aspects. Do not quarrel with others.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.