Quotes About Coexistence

either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands. So it is with the blade of grass and the adjacent forest as, indeed, with all the species sharing this most complicated farm. Relations are what matter most, and the health of the cultivated turns on the health of the wild.

What existential difference is there between the human being's role in this (or any) garden and the bumblebee's

On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.

India is a country that lives in several centuries simultaneously, and her people at any given time and place encapsulate all the contradictions that come from being a multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-lingual society.

We have to protect the rights of every person and group to follow their sincere religious belief peacefully without hurting other people.

Most bacteria aren't bad. We breathe and eat and ingest gobs of bacteria every single moment of our lives. Our food is covered in bacteria. And you're breathing in bacteria all the time, and you mostly don't get sick.

I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.

Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.

What I'm trying to do is fulfill what my father said, which is, 'We have to find a way to live together as brothers and sisters, or together we're going to perish as fools.'

There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.

People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.

I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live.

I love my people. They have the right to live like any other nation on Earth.

All's love, yet all's law.

For we love liberty just as we love peace.

A general message to "everyone" on the planet would go something along the lines of, "Make Love, Not War."

strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.

When love is the trend, there is no room for violence and war.

We are a people united by our love for freedom, even when we differ in our personal beliefs. In America, we are free to profess any faith we choose, or no faith at all.

Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.

Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.