Quotes About Coexistence

In the world we want, everyone fits. We want a world in which many worlds fit.

We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in the world of little things.

It is not a Buddhist approach to say that if everyone practiced Buddhism, the world would be a better place. Wars and oppression begin from this kind of thinking.

Nature is not dumb. Humanity is dumb when we can't hear or when we forget how to communicate with nature. Nature is very much alive. Intelligent living beings and vibrant energies are all over the planet.

If one group of people can exterminate another in the name of so-called religion, the world has no hope.

Legally we have integration, social acceptance and diversity... but that doesn't mean... everybody is down with it.

Here in North Jersey, our Muslim community is essential to our social fabric.

It is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work side by side in future civilization.

I'm friends with people that probably would describe themselves as socialists and people that are much more conservative than I am. I can always find a middle ground.

Multicultural societies are multi-conflict societies.

What sort of Europe do we want to have? Parallel societies? Muslim communities living together with the Christian community?

Parallel societies are exactly that: They exist side by side and rarely meet.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

I don't like orange soda, but I don't wish Sunkist goes out of business. I just don't drink it.

Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.

We will not accept in our country even a single soldier who will attack Muslims or Arabs.

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

We need to separate the two peoples: Israeli Arabs are part and parcel of Israel, and Palestinians should be separate, as part of a two-state solution.

I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

My view is to try and not demonize the Palestinians. I'm not denying that there are Palestinians who fire rockets and do terrible things; I know that that happens. But to get a fundamental solution, you have to have hope on both sides.

Anyone seeking a real solution in Israel and Palestine rejects the us-versus-them mentality entirely.

There are fear mongers who talk about Islam as somehow it is an incubator of hate... remember Christians, like the Westboro Baptist Church, are just as capable of promoting intolerance.