Ashraf Ghani Quotes

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.

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

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

Our differences needn't divide us, but unity takes work.

In a time where there are divides between cultures and races, I would love to use my position to show that we are all the same inside and working together is the key to moving forward.

We can focus on differences that divide us, or we can choose to listen and learn from each other's experiences.

I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

Can we all get along?

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

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

Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.

My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.

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.

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

Now the question is, how can we make our two peoples, both of whom love peace, come closer together.

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.