Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

Social peace requires reciprocity.

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

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

I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.

The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.

We must … show that peace and prosperity can exist side by side.

The good people of this world are very far from being satisfied with each other & my arms are the best peacemakers.

My whole aim in whatever I say, whatever I do, is to follow the peaceful line of having people live together... If we can all play in that game, the world will be a better place.

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

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.

We thought a human city is kind of like that watering hole. It's where different groups come together and have to find ways to live and survive and cohabit and cooperate, but they may not always see eye-to-eye.

All sides must learn to respect one another.

I never want any problems with anybody in this world.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

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.

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.

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.