Quotes About Coexistence

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can." -- The Silmarllion, JRR Tolkien

The enemy of a tree is not only the enemy of humanity, but also the enemy of all the living beings!

The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects.

Dev-"Come in peace or leave in pieces

Men! What do any of you ever do without us?" "Live in hovels?

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

Harmony seldom makes a headline.

Human beings can grow to make killing fields, and they can grow to make gardens.

Amos Oz, the late Jerusalemite writer, offered this droll solution: 'We should remove every stone of the Holy Sites and transport them to Scandinavia for a hundred years and not return them until everyone has learned to live together in Jerusalem.

Picture the world with no bombs and guns.

I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.

The truth is that the world and our fantasies often overlap.

And in my secret heart of hearts, I admit there was some old mush that hadn't been scooped out of me by hardship and insanity. But there was also the story itself, the story Boris and I had written together, and in that story, our bodies and thoughts and memories had gotten themselves so tangled up that it was hard to see where one person's ended and the other's began.

A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors

Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

If we want to see an end to personal and global conflict, then love is the only real answer.