Stevie Wonder Quotes

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

Social peace requires reciprocity.

I pray that we learn to live together. That Jerusalem is one, with law and order.

I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

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

I'm not going to disrespect you, don't disrespect me.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

The individual and society have waged a relentless and bloody battle for ages, each striving for supremacy, because each was blind to the value and importance of the other.

Peace itself is not made by documents. Peace is made by good will among men.

You just always do what will make the other fellow feel comfortable, at ease, and then everything else will be all right.

If you treat people right they will treat you right — ninety percent of the time.

In order to have a large number of values in common, all members of the group must have an equitable opportunity to receive and to take from others. Members must be able to accept each other’s ideas and must be able to compromise. There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. Otherwise, the influences … educate some into masters, educate others into slaves.

Respect is the first requisite to good fellowship.

We are safer when communities respect the police and the police respect the communities.

Peace is more than simply the absence of war; it is the absence of conditions that give rise to war.

If you're operating from strong principles, you can compromise when the person on the other side is operating from principles you respect.

I want to bring more lawv and romance into the society.

If we don't have access to facts, we can't trust each other. Without trust, there's no law. Without law, there's no democracy.

Respect is the most essential thing about captaincy. Respect between the captain and players is important. It is give and take.

All sides must learn to respect one another.

This country is not going to progress if we can't have decent civil conversations and be respectful to one another.