Quotes About Harmony

Love the Earth You Make Love On

What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather than our inner mad chimpanzee?

In Bonoboville, the females gently but firmly rule the roost, keeping the males gentle and firm

Release your Inner Bonobo

Meet the bonobos, the rare and marvelous "make love not war" great apes who swing through the trees as well as with each other.

Bonobos are... ambassadors from a primordial world of peace through pleasure, inviting us in one kiss at a time.

I have never learned to hate. Don't let my first lesson come from you.

In their innocence and wisdom, in their connection to the earth and its most ancient rhythms, animals show us a way back to a home they have never left.

You never know what Nature may do. She has ways of her own of getting even with people," remarked her friend, solemnly.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

One of the most important times in my life was the first time that I remember seeing my daddy get onstage and play music with a bunch of guys. All of them playing something different at the same time and all becoming one, and me soaking that in at 5 years old and going, 'That's my daddy up there, and he's a part of something.'

I know, firsthand, that soccer brings people together - all it takes is a ball and a few people, and the seeds of friendship are planted.

I believe that soccer can be an example of understanding and peace between countries and between peoples.

The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony.

The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.

If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.

Legally we have integration, social acceptance and diversity... but that doesn't mean... everybody is down with it.

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

Here in North Jersey, our Muslim community is essential to our social fabric.

With the polarization of points of view around significant political and social issues, sports is a place where people can sort of talk about something together. And I think that is important to people.

If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first.

It is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work side by side in future civilization.

I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?

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.