Quotes About Coexistence

It's difficult to get on with people of another generation, even when they don't try to impose their way of seeing things on us.

Después de todo, el alma y el cuerpo viven separados por un tabique, y lo mejor es que se llevan como buenos vecinos.

And the next time you raise your gun to needlessly take a feathered life, think of the marvelous little engine which your lead will stifle forever; lower your weapon and look into the clear bright eyes of the bird whose body equals yours in physical perfection, and whose tiny brain can generate a sympathy, a love for its mate, which in sincerity and unselfishness suffers little when compared with human affection.4

No need for Jesus and the Lord Buddha to fight

But not hurting people and knowing how to get along with people, ... they're different.

Most 'normal' people in America are in the same boat right now, torn between wanting to save the people they're stuck with and wanting to fucking kill them.

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau once said: "Living next to the Americans is like sleeping next to an elephant—no matter how friendly and even-tempered the elephant, one is affected by every twitch!

Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.

When Homo sapiens came along, after all, the Neanderthals had a hard time, and virtually all animals were subdued. The lucky ones became pets, the unlucky lunch.

Perhaps only the strong survive, but only the tolerant thrive.

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.

The world and my being, its life and mine, were one. The microcosm and macrocosm were at length atoned, at length in harmony. I lived in everything; everything entered and lived in me.

Rewilding is not about abandoning civilization but about enhancing it. It is to 'love not man the less, but Nature more'.

And I think in this empty world there was room for me and a mountain lion. And I think in the world beyond, how easily we might spare a million or two humans And never miss them. Yet what a gap in the world, the missing white frost-face of that slim yellow mountain lion! D. H. Lawrence Mountain Lion

Yes," he said, "but we are on the ground here; this is our place; he comes breaking in; he must adapt himself to us; not we to him.

We only make peace with our enemies. That's why it's called making peace.

At Highgarden we have many spiders amongst the flowers. So long as they keep to themselves we let them spin their little webs, but if they get underfoot we step on them.

Missandei said the Peaceful People made music instead of war. They did not kill, not even animals; they ate only fruit and never flesh.

A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

Oh, everybody knows that although they may be hard workers, they are not easy to deal with, and they've skimmed the district for all the cream they can get. But after all, though they may rob us, at least they respect us. That makes for a kind of social solidarity between us and them—deplore it or not, it exists, and everything that exists should be used for some good purpose.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.