Quotes About Dialogue

I learned to have the patience to listen when people put forward their views, even if I think those views are wrong. You can't reach a just decision in a dispute unless you listen to both sides.

We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.

I think above all, what we need with Iran is patience.

Understanding comes through communication, and through communication we find the way to peace.

The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.

There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.

Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths to dialogue and not by constructing new walls!

In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken.

There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.

Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.

May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.

[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.

It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.

Listening is more important than talking.

The best weapon is to sit down and talk.

Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.

Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world.

We accept every form or way to talk to the Syrians how to achieve peace.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, "Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let 's just sit down and begin to talk peace."