Neighbour Quotes - Page 8

• If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Children

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• To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.

  Ariel Sharon

  Fate, Israel, Over You

  "The leaders' statements". www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2005.

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• It is particularly recommended, as a means of uniting the inhabitants of the village into one family, that while each faithfully adheres to the principles which he most approves, at the same time all shall think charitably of their neighbours respecting their religious opinions, and not presumptuously suppose that theirs alone are right.

  Robert Owen

  Religious, Mean, Thinking

  Robert Owen (1854). “Part 5. of the New Existence of Man Upon the Earth in Winch is Continued the Outline of Mr. Owen's Life...[etc]”, p.11

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• It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future.

  Eban Goodstein

  Doors, Energy, Climate

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• I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Jet, Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be.

  Joel Osteen

  Brother, Smart, Love Yourself

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• The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, World, Way

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.201

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• I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?

  Salma Hayek

  Running, Children, Growing Up

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• It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by war. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a superpower that uses its values as a scabbard for its sword.

  Mohsin Hamid

  War, America, Support

  "Pakistan must not be abandoned" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2001.

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• God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.

  Elizabeth I

  Bravery, Scary, Soldier

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• Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

  Junot Diaz

  Memories, Giving, Monsters

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• My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

  Jimmy Carter

  Prayer, Israel, Numbers

  "Jimmy Carter: 'We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. We never went to war'". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

  Louise Lester

  Favourite, Neighbourhoods

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• We cannot continue to mourn about our country being poor while our minerals are lying untapped and with harvesting at Lake Natron, we will not be the first to do so, because our neighbours, Kenya, are doing the same on the other side of the lake.

  Jakaya Kikwete

  Country, Lying, Lakes

  Daily News, April 1, 2011.

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• As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason.

  Elizabeth I

  Fear, Causes, World

  Speech to Parliament, 1586, in William Camden 'Annales rerum anglicanum' (1615) bk. 3

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• I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places.

  Eric Schmidt

  Children, Optimistic, People

  "The future according to Mr Google". Interview with Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2013.

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• One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Love Is, Aspect

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• There is this difference between the love taught by Christianity and that taught by Hinduism: Christianity teaches us to love our neighbours as we should wish them to love us; Hinduism asks us to love them as ourselves, in fact to see ourselves in them.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Differences, Wish, Taught

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2601, Manonmani Publishers

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• Our responsibility is to love God and to love our neighbour which is what Jesus taught and it's also what Judaism taught - and that would make sense because Jesus was Jewish.

  Amy-Jill Levine

  Jesus, Responsibility, Taught

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• If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek of your relations...don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbours in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize opportunity by the scruff of the neck.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Independent, Opportunity, Shining

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• It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.

  John Humphrys

  Vocabulary, Years, Sms

  "I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language" by John Humphrys, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 24, 2007.

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• He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours.

  Colin Powell

  Mass Destruction, Hussein, Weapons

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• Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.

  Shimon Peres

  Ocean, Mean, Opportunity

  "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Pere, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours

  Andrei Sakharov

  Country, Rights, Doe

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• Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But for the same reason everyone is eager to instruct his neighbours. To be wise or to be virtuous is to buy dignity and importance at a high price; but when nothing is necessary to elevation but detection of the follies or faults of others, no man is so insensible to the voice of fame as to linger on the ground.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Grateful, Men

  The Rambler, No 87, January 15, 1751.

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