F. Sionil Jose Quotes

Some people get on better with some than others but what is absolutely crucial is that everyone knows their roles and responsibilities and trust that your team-mate is going to do their best for the team.

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

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.

If players know their role it is easier to keep to them.

It's important everyone knows their roles individually and collectively as a group.

In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

We hear many persuasive voices demanding freedom from restrictions, particularly from moral restraints. However, we learn from the history of the earth that any successful society has had boundaries.

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.

There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony.

All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.

I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.

Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

The bounds of society would be dissolved, the harmony of the world confounded, and the order of nature subverted, if reverence, respect and obedience might be refused to those whom the constitution has vested with the highest authority.

The individual and society have waged a relentless and bloody battle for ages, each striving for supremacy, because each was blind to the value and importance of the other.

Peace is the most effective way for nations to attain prosperity and happiness

A lasting peace cannot be founded on force, but only on a moral order.

Peace is hard, but we know that it is possible

We must … show that peace and prosperity can exist side by side.

We must reject the easy impulses of bitterness and rancor and embrace the difficult work, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other's encroachments.