Quotes About Harmony

Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.

There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.

Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.

Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'

What is necessary is to teach each class and profession the importance of the others. All together form one mighty body; labourer, peasant, and professional man.

No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong. Nor can it pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

Turtle makes all men equal.

Remember, as each man and woman is a microcosm reflecting the larger natural world, so healing of the self is also a healing for the world. As above, so below.

You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference!