Colson Whitehead Quotes

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.

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

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.

Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.

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

Peace at home. Peace in the world.

While at present the people of the world are divided into various groups, calling themselves nations, while one nation defies another—in most cases considers the others as competitive—we, the workers of the world, shall stretch out our hands towards each other with brotherly love. To the fulfillment of this idea I shall devote all my energy, and, if necessary, render my life for it

The cause of world peace is much more important than any individual.

What repeated follies are those repeated wars! You do not want to conquer and govern one another. Why, then, should you be continually employed in injuring and destroying one another? How many excellent things might have been done to promote the internal welfare of each country; what bridges, roads, canals, and other useful public works and institutions, tending to the common felicity, might have been made and established with the money and men foolishly spent during the last seven centuries by our mad wars in doing one another mischief! You are near neighbors, and each have very respectable qualities. Learn to be quiet and to respect each other's rights. You are all Christians.

Understanding the other person's viewpoint is the beginning of polical wisdom,

I do believe that the international community cannot act based on a rivalries or things of that sort.

Americans and Europeans share a common goal - to build an enduring peace based on freedom.

One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.

Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.

Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.

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.

I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

The supreme need of the world is peace and good will among men. It must be peace founded upon justice and fairness, the righting of past wrong, and the securing of the future as far as possible against the evils of the past.

We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.

I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.