J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

On a personal level, we all get along fine.

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.

A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.

We have a good time and try not to kill each other.

I am not anyone's enemy.

We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

No other people, as a whole, is entirely our enemy. No people at all … is entirely our friend.

With friends you use reason and logic. With enemies you use violence.

The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive and have an appetite for work. For equality to come about, it is necessary that these strikingly contrasting races adjust to each other

We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make no one our enemy.

Let us mingle with other nations as one of them and not stand as one apart. Let us seek their friendship not their hate.

Whoever said “Keep your enemies close” didn’t have many enemies.

In every democracy, it is the people's will that is supreme. We should translate the intense yearning of the people of India and Pakistan for friendship into meaningful measures of cooperation in every walk of life.

It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

I'm friends with all my contemporaries.

It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.

Discord gives a relish for concord.

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.

The only way for peace between the races is a separation of the races.

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

Our children and grandchildren may yet curse the day we began hyping race and ethnicity. There are countries where that has led to slaughters in the streets but you cannot name a country where it has led to greater harmony.

It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.