Quotes About Coexistence

So laß mir meinen Glauben, wie ich Dir den Deinigen lasse!

We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.

if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.—In

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. [...] We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

Democracy and freedom do not guarantee the millennium. No, we do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.

If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

Sosyal çevremizi, ?iddetten uzak ve bar??ç?l bir biçimde yap?land?rma arzusu, bir dü? de?ildir. Bu, insanl?k için ihtimal dahilinde olan ve biyolojik bak?? aç?s?ndan bak?ld???nda, ku?kusuz gerekli bir hedeftir.

This life is a dance, not a battle. We are all part of this world, not masters of it.

We were two sets of people inhabiting the same space, each set going about its affairs as if the other were not there.

Whatever the shadow was that lived with them, it did not belong just to him, but to her as well: it was a space they both inhabited. But it seemed there was no way to speak into that silent place. Their lives had slowly grown around it, the way the roots of a river-fig grew around a rock.

Rather than seeing a contest between druid and Christian, I see a kinship between stone chapel and stone circle.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.

Peace is the art of co-existence

Comme tout les rêves, celui de l'égalitarisme présuppose un monde fragmentaire, fait exclusivement de braves gens qui ne songent qu'à pétrir leur pain en traquilité sans être molestés ni par les loups ni par les dieux ; or les loups sont dans les "braves gens" eux-mêmes, et quant aux dieux fauteur de "fanatisme", il suffit de les mettre en veilleuse pour que les diables viennent les remplacer.

"Independence"... [is] middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

At Clochemerle, the greater number of the men put up with their wives, and the great majority of the women with their husbands. If this hardly amounted to adoration, in the majority of homes at any rate the men and women found each other very nearly endurable.

At this point in our planetary history, if we are simply to survive, we need to follow the law of unity between humanity and nature. If we keep trying to break the laws of nature, they will eventually break us.

Y si en un momento dado hubiese la misma proporción de felicidad e infelicidad en el mundo?

A person living near the Indian Ocean realizes the God in the infinity of the deep, blue ocean; where as a person living in the lap of the Himalayas, the Mt. Everest, realizes the God in the magnificence of the white mountains. Only political eyes divide these two people in two different faiths, but the truth is that both of them are trusting in two different creations of the same God.

Just like a plant or an animal a human being is an element of nature. So, save the mother-nature to save yourself; we are not different or above from her.

One faith prays for the wellbeing of all human being and creatures, in the meantime another faith prays louder for the perish of all other faiths; which is the responsible faith?

Time and death sleep side by side.

I don't understand why people insist on pitting the concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can't they see that spiritualism and science are one?

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.