Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.

I am the President of Arabs and Druse as well as Jews.

This is a country where Jews and Arabs speak without fear. Where people come from different cultures the world over. Where everyone becomes Brazilian rapidly.

We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.

Once, there was a time in Jerusalem of brotherhood and peace: cultures and languages lived side by side and not one at the expense of the other.

We are Germans. We are Armenians. French, Italian, Russian, American, Asian, African... many other nationalities. We are Christians, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu. We are black, we are white. We are a community of some many differences, so complex and yet so simple. We do not need to have war!

But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity.

To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason.

I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

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 want Dubai to be a place where everybody from all over the world meets each other, don't think of fighting or hate, just love it, enjoy their sport, and that's it.

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 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.

Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.

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.

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order

We, in the United States, are a melting-pot and, by being so, we have demonstrated that peoples can get along together irrespective of race, color or creed. Using the ‘melting-pot’ or some such catch phrase for a theme we might be able to use the Met [Metropolitan Opera Company] as an example of how Europeans can get along together in the United States and that, therefore, some sort of European Federation is entirely practicable.

It had always been one of my convictions that Jews and Arabs could live together. Even as a child it never occurred to me that Jews might someday be living in Israel without Arabs, or separated from Arabs. On the contrary, for me it had always seemed perfectly normal for the two people to live and work side by side. That is the nature of life here and it always will be.... though Israel is a Jewish nation, it is, of course, not only a Jewish nation...

Diversity does not preclude political stability.

There's no reason we can't all live harmoniously together, and that's what I would say to the head of Iran.