Quotes About Coexistence

We were taught that the organism that is best able to control both its environment and all the other organisms in its environment is the most evolved. 'Survival of the fittest'. But our deeper understanding tells us that a truly evolved being is one that values others more than it values itself, and that values love more than it values the physical world and what is in it.

Glissant: "For me, the arrival is the moment where all the components of humanity – not just the African ones – consent to the idea that it is possible to be one and multiple at the same time; that you can be yourself and the Other; that you can be the Same and the Different. When that battle ... is won, a great many accidents in human history ... will be abolished.

THE FIRST DAY OR SO WE ALL POINTED TO OUR COUNTRIES. THE THIRD OR FOURTH DAY WE WERE POINTING TO OUR CONTINENTS. BY THE FIFTH DAY WE WERE AWARE OF ONLY ONE EARTH.' — SULTAN BIN SALMAN BIN ABDULAZIZ AL-SAUD, SPACE SHUTTLE STS-51-G

Enkidu never should've killed the guardian of the forest. He should've joined him. That's what too much civilizing does to you.

The earth is like a one-room schoolhouse in which students of different grade levels are assembled together:

Aunque hemos caminado sobre la luna y hemos dividido el átomo, todavía discriminamos y libramos guerras en nombre de la religión. Parece que en nuestras creencias respectivas solo vemos las diferencias, o las verdades comunes. Los árboles no nos dejan ver el bosque.

Todo debe estar equilibrado. La naturaleza está equilibrada. Los animales viven en armonía. Los humanos no han aprendido a hacerlo.

Frank's chromosome conquered everywhere. Peace was guaranteed. By the end of another century's ruthless intermarriage, Russia and Asia were engulfed as thoroughly as Europe, and by the same loving methods. Billions of people: one consciousness.

A fascinating quality of the human mind is its ability to hold firmly and simultaneously to contradictory ideas.

Religion isn't the problem; ignorance and hatred are.

Together, they became part of the space between things.

Science is not a neutral or innocent commodity which can be employed as a convenience by people wishing to partake only of the West's material power. Rather it is spiritually corrosive, burning away ancient authorities and traditions. It cannot really co-exist with anything.

To win a truly great life for the people of Israel, a great peace is necessary, not a fictitious peace, the dwarfish peace that is no more than a feeble intermission, but a true peace with the neighboring peoples, which alone can render possible a common development of this portion of the earth as the vanguard of the awakening Near East.

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also.

Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.

Ten Å›wiat jest wspólny, jest spóÅ'kÄ… akcyjnÄ… wszystkich ludzi pod ka?dÄ… szerokoÅ›ciÄ… geograficznÄ…. My kanibale, musimy jakoÅ› dopomaga? tym chrzeÅ›cijanom. - Ismael, Moby Dick, Herman Melville

Let us suffer absurdities, for that is only to suffer one another.

Immortals are never alien to one another.

There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through.

Why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love? Why will you destroy us who supply you with food? What can you get by war?

So it is more than a purely historical question to ask: How does it start?—and an even more urgent question: How might it end? Or, to put it differently: Is it possible for whites and blacks to live together without hatred?

Because this second position is powered by the hope that there may someday be a single world religion, it is well to remind ourselves again of the human element in the religious equation. There are people who want to have their own followers. They would prefer to head their own flock, however small, than be second-in-command in the largest congregation. This suggests that if we were to find ourselves with a single religion tomorrow, it is likely that there would be two the day after. p386

The work we have to do is with ourselves ,If we're ever going to be at peace with each other.