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Quotes About Coexistence

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!
~ Phyllis Bottome
Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?
~ Howard Stringer
A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.
~ Ugo Betti
There is nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
~ Pythagoras
Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.
~ Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.
~ Dian Fossey
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
~ Charles Darwin
The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.
~ Timothy Thomas Fortune
No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy.
~ Sadhu T. L. Vaswani
There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.
~ Rigoberta Menchu
We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
~ Rachel Carson
The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.
~ David Hume
I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.
~ Thaddeus Stevens
The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.
~ Italo Calvino
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The wolf is neither man's competitor nor his enemy. He is a fellow creature with whom the earth must be shared.
~ L. David Mech
Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.
~ Ruth Benedict
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
~ Ambrose Bierce
If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness.
~ Muhammad Asad
Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.
~ Philippa Gregory