People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints such people have a corpse in their mouth.

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America I plead guilty.

Poetry should be able to reach everybody and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.

Even when poetry has a meaning as it usually has it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.

In a multi-racial society trust understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love no hate no prejudice no bigotry and more unity peace and understanding. Period.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

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.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint and he understands ours then we can sit down and work out our differences.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence it can only be attained through understanding.

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me with her compassion patience and understanding.

Tolerance compromise understanding acceptance patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

Give your dog or cat respect patience understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being and through its use brings peace to every human soul.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

We do not see nature with our eyes but with our understandings and our hearts.