Compay Segundo Quotes

Before the human race today there are only two roads: War or brotherhood.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more misunderstanding, and we don't need no more violence. We need the people to see each other and know of each other, feel each other, touch each other, share with each other, and change hearts with each other.

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.

I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made.

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.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

That differences of race, color, and creed are natural, and that diverse groups, institutions, and ideas are stimulating factors in the development of man; That to promote harmony in diversity is a responsible task of religion and statesmanship; That since no individual can express the whole truth, it is essential to treat with understanding and good will those whose views differ from our own; That by the testimony of history intolerance is the door to violence, brutality and dictatorship; and That the realization of human interdependence and solidarity is the best guard of civilization.

We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.

The struggle between Israelis and Palestinians is a perfect reflection of the struggle between fear and forgiveness that rages within us all.

The good in this world far outweighs the evil. Our common humanity transcends our differences, and our most effective response to terror is compassion, it's unity, and it's love.

We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.

As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing.

It is important to remember that if we treat people who could be allies as enemies, we can only alienate them from our cause.

Everybody is a human being. We should be able to coexist with one another.