Dominique Pire Quotes

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

Let's not build a wall around ourselves just when they're coming down all over the world.

We're not in the business of putting up barriers; that's the job of politicians. They're the idiots who want to build walls between people.

When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

You don't build walls; you build bridges between people.

All day long I keep wishing, let partition be a past now. It should only remain a part of history.

We're so bitterly divided these days, the appearance of a true 'other' might be the best chance of bringing us all together.

What I do is the opposite of building walls. I build bridges. A bridge is something that connects instead of separating.

Too many prefer to cling to the thing that divides us, and precious few are willing to come together over the thing that unites us.

Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

I like to build bridges... not walls.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

Something there is that does not love a wall.

I have differences with every single human being I know, but that difference shouldn’t define our relationship.

As long as we are still talking, that's progress.

You cannot shake hands with a clinched fist.

Let us reach out our hand to our brother and heal the great divide.