Quotes About Harmony

The Palestine I know is a place where Christians and Muslims are equal. My mother, a Muslim village girl, attended a Catholic girls' school in Ramallah, and my refugee husband spent the Second Intifada side by side with his Christian brothers from Bethlehem.

It's quite easy for schisms to develop in societies, in villages, cities or countries.

I like simple food, seasoned with just salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Complicated food and complicated lives are never good.

Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous.

Violence is my last option.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

I don't support violence and I don't support negative energy. I don't support people putting other people down.

We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more misunderstanding, and we don't need no more violence. We need the people to see each other and know of each other, feel each other, touch each other, share with each other, and change hearts with each other.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.

We need to fight violence and ignorance. It is true: when one strolls out, one sees women with scarves and men with beards. This has always been the case in Morocco. Morocco is built on tolerance.

Nonviolence is the only credible response to the violence we're seeing around the world.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

I don't support violence, period.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.