Social Harmony Quotes

If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

Free Blacks are unfavorable to our industry and morals.

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

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

Individual interests now trump any consideration of the good of society just as all problems are ultimately laid at the door of the solitary individual, whose fate is shaped by forces far beyond his or her capacity for personal responsibility.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Democracy is usually seen as a pacifying force that “draws the teeth” from conflict.

The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.

Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference in religious opinion. Time has at length revealed the true remedy. Every relaxation of narrow and rigorous policy, wherever it has been tried, has been found to assuage the disease.

I found no better way of dealing with the race problem as to interact with all other people as if discrimination did not exist.

We don't have to let extremists define us.

You get World Peace through Inner Peace. If you've got a world full of people who have Inner Peace, then you have a Peaceful World.

Secularism is intact because of Hindus.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

I think it is important that religious leaders of all kinds consciously attempt to distinguish between issues of natural law on which there is consensus among Catholic, Protestant, and Jew and those issues on which there must be a greater degree of tolerance of other peoples' opinions and of the diversity that is characteristic of American society.

Peace, political stability and reconciliation are not too much to ask for. They are the minimum that a decent civilized society provides.

No longer need capitalist and worker, farmer and clerk, city and countryside, struggle to divide our bounty. By working shoulder to shoulder, together we can increase the bounty of all.

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

We need a cohesive society that is tolerant.

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

Here is a diversity of religions, educations, manners, interest, such as it would seem almost impossible to unite in one plan of conduct.

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

The values that East Asian culture upholds, such as the primacy of group interests over individual interests, support the total group effort necessary to develop rapidly.

Conservatives are not our enemies. They are our neighbors.