Quotes About Coexistence

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?

Whether several angels can be at the same time in the same place? Objection 1: It would seem that several angels can be at the same time in the same place. For several bodies cannot be at the same time in the same place, because they fill the place. But the angels do not fill a place, because only a body fills a place, so that it be not empty, as appears from the Philosopher (Phys. iv, text 52,58). Therefore several angels can be in the one place.

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

Thus for some 4,400 years the people living in closest association with honeybees have focused on devising housing arrangements for bees that serve human purposes and have largely ignored what the bees' themselves seek in a home.

You have to live with the necessities of other people.

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

Jewish and Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem are interlaced one with the other.

Hindus and Muslims used to be like two neighbors, who had some issues but who also loved each other.

You can change friends but not neighbours.

For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours.

New York City has an integration problem.

I am a humanist. I am for nice, easy balance.

If there's no future for Jews in Europe, there's no future for Europe.

Il giorno e la notte sono legati come poche altre cose al mondo, non possono esistere l'uno senza l'altro e tuttavia non possono esistere insieme. Come ci si può sentire, pensai, quando si è sempre uniti e sempre divisi?

Respect for religion is the opposite of religious tolerance, because it allows the intolerant to impose their will on others.

He still wanted his community to be the place where he lived, a community which contained old white women, young Muslim men, Lithuanian kids, mixed-race girls, Asian parents

He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an elephant. His room was tiny, and every morning he had to squeeze around the truth just to get to the bathroom. To reach the armoire to get a pair of underpants he had to crawl under the truth, praying it wouldn't choose that moment to sit on his face. At night, when he closed his eyes, he felt it looming above him.

Christianity and Islam are sister religions, and in Iberia they long lived side by side. If you are about to hunt your sister out of your home, you need to work yourselves into a much more self-righteous frenzy than if you were expelling a stranger.

This country is a land mass that could be called anything, and for people to act like this is some kind of sacred territory is an insanity. It's just a bunch of people trying to live together, and if we're not going to be part of a dream of equality--a part of a dream of that which is the best of us, the idea that people help one another--if we're not going to do that, then this land mass doesn't any more deserve to be revered than anything else.

there is a crucial difference between a one-state solution and a binational state. In general, nation-states have been imposed with substantial violence and repression for one reason—because they seek to force varied and complex populations into a single mold.

There is imperial terror and aggression, there is exploitation, there is racism, lots of things like that. But there is also a real concern, coexisting with it, for individual rights of a sort which, for example, are embodied in the Bill of Rights, which is by no means simply an expression of class oppression. It is also an expression of the necessity to defend the individual against state power.

If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway.

PROLOGUE In the long ago, the worlds of gods and men and Fey coexisted.