Quotes About Coexistence

For more than two decades I have tried, honestly and respectfully, to walk the difficult line between the world of Native America and the world of those of us whose people came, willingly or otherwise, to these American shores. I have done this because I believe that we, as Americans, are poorly served by our willful avoidance of the true facts of our national experience, and also because I believe that the lives and ways of the Native American peoples have much to teach us all. It

Well, if you don't like the idea of one world, how many worlds do you want, and how would you like them divided? By race? By religion? By income? Unless you have a spare planet in your pocket, one world is all we have.

Like slavery and piracy, terrorism has no place in the modern world.

Of all the animals that travelled the long road through the ages with us, dogs always walked closest.

A rapprochement between empirical science and religious experience would in my opinion be fruitful for both.

The endless dilemma of culture and nature is always a question of too much or too little, never of either-or.

Our eyes see different things, I thought. They always have. Even when we're looking in the same direction, standing side by side.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

But maybe we were both wrong, and both right. It's not either or, not luck or love. Not fate or will. Maybe for double happiness, you need both.

Às vezes, conhecemos pessoas com as quais estabelecemos uma relação tão simbiótica que é como se fôssemos uma pessoa só, com uma só mente, um só destino

Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures.

I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist" ? Gena Showalter, Seduce the Darkness

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.

It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying it's people who are not willing to hurt other people because the other people are different.

There's too many men too many people Making too many problems And not much love to go round

And the dragons aren't interested in talking to us about how they do whatever it is that they do." Kai coughed. "Just like we aren't interested in talking to them about how we do what we do?

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

What should you do when you see an endangered animal that is eating an endangered plant?

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

Palestine must ultimately become a state which guards the rights and interests of Moslems, Jews and Christians alike."56

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

He opened his mouth to argue but she put her fingers on his lips. "I don't require you to like it. Only to accept that I'm different from you.

To exist in peace, we have to sacrifice that violence.