Dominique Pire famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.
-- Dominique Pire

#Respect #Understanding #Tolerance
There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands and oases constantly growing in number and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world.
-- Dominique Pire

#Kindness #Islands #Oasis
Peace is not something to say but something to do.
-- Dominique Pire
To act without knowledge is folly, to know without acting is cowardice.
-- Dominique Pire

#Acting #Cowardice #Folly

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.
I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability but the mental condition which it induces. The world, I found, has a way of taking a man pretty much at his own rating. If he permits his loss to make him embarrassed and apologetic, he will draw embarrassment from others. But if he gains his own respect, the respect of those around him comes easily.
Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says "Whatever is, isn't the way it is supposed to be." So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called "the peace that passes all understanding."
Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.
Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.

Dominique Pire famous quotes

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