Quotes About Coexistence

Buildings should be good neighbours.

No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other.

I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba, in 1870, did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land, but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small, but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great, but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small, because the right is the same for everyone.

Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

The situation is one something like living with your wife. Sometimes it is difficult and even irritating to live with her, but it is always impossible to live without her.

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish in the Palaozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime.

Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.

You know, we're all going in the same direction, or at least trying to. So we need to live together, get along together, and give each other enough space to be comfortable on that road.

Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all mortal creatures exist depending upon one another.

I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.

We don't have to have the same truths or personal belief systems to love one another and get along.

There is never one defined right or wrong brother. We each have our individual truths. But together we're the better truth.

I try to be cool with everybody, but sometimes, everybody just has different personalities, motives, and different characters.

Marseille has a big Muslim community. The good thing is it is a melting point: all nationalities in there. Everyone is fine with each other. It is really close to North Africa, to Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, so a lot of them come from there.

It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems.

If one has problems with immigrant communities in Europe, that should not be used against Turkey.

We have a very significant number of Jewish citizens, and they have always been safe and secure where they are in Turkey.

Attempts by one ethnic group to exercise sovereignty over another are not fair. It doesn't matter if that ethnicity is Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, Chaldean or whatever.

My readers are surprisingly mixed. I have conservative readers - for instance, women with headscarves - but also many liberal, leftist, feminist, nihilist, environmentalist, and secularist readers. Next to those are mystics, agnostics, Kurds, Turks, Alevis, Sunnis, gays, housewives, and businesswomen.

We have always realized, as Israelis and as Jews, that we are not fighting Islam and thus avoided turning the Temple Mount issue into a war of Jews against Muslims.