Quotes About Coexistence

il existait sans doute entre les inquiétes créatures humaines des répulsions et des haines surgies du plus profond de leur nature, et qui, le jour où il ne serait plus de mode de s'exterminer pour cause de religion, se donneraient cours autrement. (La promenade sur la dune)

In principle, all Islamic polities were (and are) required by Quranic injunction not to harm the dhimmi, to tolerate the Christians and Jews living in their midst.

founding principles is e pluribus unum, or "unity in diversity

This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.

So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.

Religion could quiet our antagonisms if we let it be what it is fundamentally and at best.

It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.

Reconocer ese margen de error en nosotros y de acierto en los demás es creer que discutiendo, dialogando —coexistiendo— hay más posibilidades de identificar el error y la verdad que mediante la imposición de un pensamiento oficial único, al que todos deben suscribir so pena de castigo o descrédito.

Una cosa è credere che tutte le culture meritino considerazione, visto che tutte forniscono apporti positivi alla civiltà umana, e un'altra, molto diversa, è credere che tutte, per il semplice fatto di esistere, si equivalgano.

hasta alcanzar, en nuestros días, la civilización, palabra que en boca de Hayek quiere decir libertad, legalidad, individualismo, propiedad privada, mercado libre, derechos humanos, convivencia y paz.

Es decir, su odio al individualismo y al pensamiento liberal basado en el respeto a la propiedad privada, a la coexistencia de ideas y creencias distintas en el seno de una sociedad democrática, a la libre empresa, a la economía de mercado y a la libertad política.

O los seres humanos cogerán todos una enfermedad y se extinguirán o producirán demasiada contaminación y se matarán a ellos mismos, y entonces sólo habrá insectos en el mundo y ellos serán el mejor animal.

Mark Kurlansky

Multicultural societies are so invested in "tolerance" that they'll tolerate the explicitly intolerant (and avowedly unicultural) before they'll tolerate anyone pointing out that intolerance.

Thus, once again, there need be no real contradictions between Druidry and Christianity here.

I allow the spiders the run of the house. I figure that any predator that hopes to make a living on whatever small creatures might blunder into a four-inch square bit of space in the corner of the bathroom where the tub meets the floor, needs every bit of my support. ... I tolerate the webs, only occasionally sweeping away the very dirtiest of them after the spider itself has scrambled to safety.

The world has locusts, and the world has grasshoppers. I was up to my knees in the world

People whose parents were perhaps illiterate read strangers' eyes—you can watch them read yours—and learn what they need to know. It does not take long. They understand that grand coincidence brings us together, upright and within earshot, in this flickering generation of human life on this durable planet—common language or not, sale or no sale—and therefore to mark the occasion we might as well have a little cigarette.

address the problem of keeping all this alive and safe without excluding or marginalizing the people who've lived here for centuries. That is a delicate balance: man and nature;

Each must give way to the other if there is to be any happiness.

Perhaps it was necessary that races doomed to live on the same soil should give way to each other, and adopt each other's pursuits.

We make war that we may live in peace.

si el alma se encuentra en todo cuerpo dotado de sensibilidad y si además suponemos que el alma es un cuerpo, necesariamente habrá dos cuerpos en el mismo lugar.

The Devil in the Dark] impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.