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Quotes About Coexistence

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
~ Andre Gide
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
~ Aristotle
We are anthill men upon an anthill world.
~ Ray Bradbury
Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.
~ Jennifer Aniston
Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
~ Don Van Vliet
I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'
~ Sylvia Earle
What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.
~ Alan Chadwick
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.
~ Albert Einstein
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life
~ Aristotle
What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit
~ Chief Seattle
The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.
~ Democritus
Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.
~ Doris Lessing
...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.
~ George Orwell
Cockroaches really put my "all creatures great and small" creed to the test.
~ Terri Guillemets
One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man.
~ Tertullian
We live in the world with you. We do not forsake forum or bath or workshop, or inn, or market, or any other place of commerce. We sail with you, fight with you, farm with you.
~ Tertullian
303]No doubt my reader wonders how cats and rats, two races so hostile to each other, and the one of which is the prey of the other, can manage to live together. The fact is that mine got on wonderfully harmoniously together. The cats were good as gold to the rats, which had lost all fear of them.
~ Theophile Gautier
We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other.
~ Thaddeus Golas
Do you inquire why, holding these views and possessing some will of my own, i accept so imperfect a proposition? I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.
~ Thaddeus Stevens
But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.
~ Theodor Herzl
My heart is open to all the winds: It is a pasture for gazelles And a home for Christian monks, A temple for idols, The Black Stone of the Mecca pilgrim, The table of the Torah, And the book of the Koran. Mine is the religion of love. Wherever God's caravans turn, The religion of love Shall be my religion And my faith.
~ Theodore Zeldin
The highest does not stand without the lowest.
~ Thomas a Kempis
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
~ Thomas Aquinas