Guillermo del Toro Quotes

Why do human beings find it so hard to live and let live? Countries are messing with each other. Religions are messing with each other. Castes are messing with each other; people mess with each other.

Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today

For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.

We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

Anything is better than a fruitless, hopeless, unnatural civil war.

What good is to be expected from creating division when engaged in war …?

War is no more inevitable than the plague is inevitable. War is no more a part of human nature than the burning of witches is a human act.

It cuts all the common bonds between the contending peoples and threatens to leave a legacy of embitterment that will make any renewal of those bonds impossible for a long time to come.

Europe is a world where men have decided to die together because they are unable to find a way to live together

The good people of this world are very far from being satisfied with each other & my arms are the best peacemakers.

You're in a band with someone, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to agree with everything they think or do.

We're such a funky species. We're so violent, so greedy - this is how we roll. But what are we going to do about it? How do we move forward given who we are? Because situations don't come out of nothing. They come out of certain conditions.

I am very much about peace. There is so much turmoil in this world.

It's all realistic, if you get a group of ladies and you stick them together almost every day for three, four months you're going to have some catfights.

Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.

That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.