Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy.

We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

We should not focus on ideas that divide us and pull us apart.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Do not utter words that can create discord and cause the community to break.

Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate.

Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us.

Hate won't solve anything.

It's much easier to be at peace than it is to hate somebody. It's much easier to love somebody than to fight with them.

Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

It's hard to hate up close. The more you get to know each other, the more common ground you can find and the more you can disagree without being disagreeable.

America needs fewer men obsessed with erecting fences of hate, suspicion and name calling.

Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.

Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.

Differences will always exist, but division doesn't always have to result.

The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

As we form our individual opinions of our fellow man, let us base them on our similarities and not our differences.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.