Quotes About Harmony

Achievement has no color

He whose wisdom surpasses that of all philosophers, has declared that 'a house divided against itself cannot stand

I rejoice with you in the success, which has thus far attended the cause. Yet in all our rejoicings, let us neither express nor cherish any hard feelings toward any citizen who by his vote has differed with us. Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling.

I have destroyed my enemies when I make friends with them

you can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never expose their quarrels on either side…allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizens of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like the Pharisees set ourselves up to be better than other people.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

From this day forward, let no human make war upon any other human. Let no Terran agency conspire against this new beginning. And let no man consort with alien powers. And to all the enemies of humanity, seek not to bar our way, for we shall win through, no matter the cost!

Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man—this race and that race and the other race being inferior... Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.

Be excellent to each other.

affection for her, of the compatibility

With Malice Towards None

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in...

Do good to those who hate you and turn their ill will to friendship.

music has always been a celebration of the ineradicability of life.

Art is a way of expanding our resonances, civilization our way of resonating to those expansions

No one single person needs to be a genius or a visionary or even a great artist for the result to be permanent and to transcend generations. In the same way, the clubs we make are collectively smarter than the people we are. Reason, like musicals, emerges from the meeting of many minds.

The experience of the world broadens with the reality of other creatures made vivid within it.

U re u re na-nam Gi re gi re na-nam Mu re mu re na-nam

As a species, all the things we do are unique, and are also seen all over the natural world.