Joichi Ito Quotes

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

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

I just think it's so much more rewarding and important to go around the world and bring people together as opposed to pushing people away.

I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and we can be arguing but if you put on a song, I guarantee that people will stop and listen and that's what I love about music, it can bring people together.

We are a unique country — multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious. Therefore, out of necessity, we need to moderate our positions. There is no harm in seeking solidarity of one's race but we must accept the basic truth that each one of us needs to communicate peacefully across the racial divide for the betterment of one's community.

Like all peoples, Russian millions share our longing for a friendly and peaceful world.

Americans are at our best when we build bridges between us, not walls around us.

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

The promotion of international tolerance, reconciliation and education for which we must work are, in my view, of paramount importance in order to build a balanced world showing solidarity.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it's gonna happen.

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 to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

Social peace requires reciprocity.

We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.

Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

Society is unity in diversity.

Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.