Joseph Joubert Quotes

This country is not going to progress if we can't have decent civil conversations and be respectful to one another.

Social peace requires reciprocity.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

It is important in a democracy to respect contrary opinion without impugning the motives or maligning the character of ones opponents. To view it any other way is to encourage the same type of sickness in public life that leads to assassinations.

I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.

My best friends - the people I trust the most - are Catholic, Jewish, African-American, gay, tall, short, blonde... you name it. I love people for their hearts, not their appearance or lifestyle.

I'm very respectful of people's views. I know that they're deeply held, and I'd like to hope that people are respectful of my deeply held views.

I'm friends with people that probably would describe themselves as socialists and people that are much more conservative than I am. I can always find a middle ground.

That's something that the world needs to learn today: that you can disagree and still be friends.

Ultimately, being open and respectful towards each other is much more powerful as a way to diffuse hatred and anger than, you know, layering on, you know, big walls and oppressive policies.

What we need is a dialogue amongst civilizations.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

'peace and friendship, in freedom.'

I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes!

We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

I look at Thich Nhat Hanh and I look at Marshall Rosenberg, and they're more concerned about the long range. And that long range means that you have to sit down with people who don't think like you. I want to reach people who don't think like me.

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart.

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.

A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority. My friendships were formed out of affection, mutual respect and a feeling of having something strong in common. These are eternal values that cannot be racially classified. This is the way I look at race.