Deeyah Khan Quotes

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another

We need to stop treating our opponents as our enemies.

Every fight should be settled through love and dialogue.

All sides must learn to respect one another.

Can we all get along?

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

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

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.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia.

Let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

I believed in the goodness of the Australian people; I believed they did not want to be attacking each other, and from those thoughts, I got the idea of Reconciliation in the campaign slogan and of turning this into something practical by calling a summit to bring representatives of all sections of society together, from the wealthiest to the poor.

An angry generation will not bring peace to the world; I do believe that.

The natural instinct is to join in the chorus of conflict, to make your voice louder, your point bigger, and your position stronger. But we will not solve the significant and real problems our country faces if we cannot bring ourselves to embrace a mindset of grace.

People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

I must believe that in words we will find what in fury we cannot.

Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.

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.

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

Respect for the rights of others means peace.

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.