Quotes About Harmony

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

I'm always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects - one day politics, the next day foreign policy. And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

Which is stronger, politics or love? is like asking, Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling? They are two sides of the same thing.

I'm Iranian and no matter what I do, I'm dealing with politics because especially my music, that it's a music that talks about peace, love, unity.

I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.

Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.

But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.