Reuven Rivlin Quotes

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

It gets to be a problem when I decide one position should be the law for everybody. In public life, we [people] have to find a way to live together even though we disagree - and some things we will never agree on. But we've got to leave this I'm-going-to-kill-you-because-you-don't-believe-what-I-believe attitude behind.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

We have lived for thousands of years together, Muslims and Christians; we are part of the same society.

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

I think the world is always going to be as diverse as it always has been.

I've traveled around the world, and what's so revealing is that, despite the differences in culture, politics, language, how people dress, there is a universal feeling that we all want the same thing. We deeply want to be respected and appreciated for our differences.

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order

We must learn that we can disagree with each other without becoming deadly enemies.

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

Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

Nations like individuals do not always see alike or think alike, and international cooperation and progress are not helped by any nation assuming that it has a monopoly of wisdom or of virtue.

The main hope of harmony in our troubled world lies rather in the plurality of our identities, which intertwine with each other and are resistant to drastic divisions

We must see the pluralism of the world, and not bind it by seeking common denominators.

Canadian federalism is more than a form of government. It's also a system of values that allows different people in diverse communities to live and work together in harmony for the good of all.

The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.

We must learn to live together, and the framework of Zionism must know how to include everyone.

I worry when each of us is seduced by visions of the future that have no place for the other.

I'm very proud of the world that's embracing all these different ideas of what it is to be diverse, in 2017.

Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.

We are a diverse people, man.

In a pluralistic society like ours, I think the ability to resist hate comes from cultivating a civil society that, on the one hand, nurtures the freedom of each group to pursue their faith and distinctive way of life, while, at the same time, fostering the ties that bind us together into a genuine broader community.