Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Quotes

If you can sing together, you can live together.

If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

All sides must learn to respect one another.

Social peace requires reciprocity.

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

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

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

Understanding is a two-way street.

Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

You cannot shake hands with a clinched fist.

In face of political differences, contradictions and struggle, the Church preaches peace and co-operation among people holding various political views

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

Negotiations can resolve differences, cooperation can replace confrontation and development can create a win-win scenario.

This is what we call smart power. Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security. Leaving no one on the sidelines. Showing respect even for one's enemies. Trying to understand, in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view. Helping to define the problems, determine the solutions.

You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.

In the past, leaders of both parties have been able to reach across the partisan divide. They succeeded by retaining their own humanity and recognizing the same in their political opponents.

You can never have unity if you want things to go your way.

Integration is a give and take.

One of the challenges I think we have is people feel like the act of governance is a zero sum game. 'Whatever I get, you're not getting.' Changing that dynamic is going to be critically important for me as a leader, so that people don't feel they're pitted against each other.

We have affirmed the principle that a mature relationship between nations - as between individuals - can only flourish in an atmosphere of mutual respect.

When you reach across the aisle and open your heart and mind, you might just find that you have more in common than you think with the guy on the other side of the fence.