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Quotes About Coexistence

80th verse: Imagine a world where weapons are vestiges of the past, displayed in museums to illustrate and warn the populace about an absurdly violent history. You'd see the conflicts on this planet exhibited from the perspective of human being as tiny microbes living on the same body, equally dependent on it and on one another for survival, yet killing each other and destroying their host anyway.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.
~ Wendell Berry
There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.
~ Wendell Berry
The way I see it, dogs had this big meeting, oh, maybe 20,000 years ago. A huge meeting--an international convention with delegates from everywhere. And that's when they decided that humans were the up-and-coming species and dogs were going to throw their lot in with them. The decision was obviously not unanimous. The wolves and dingoes walked out in protest.
~ Charles Krauthammer
Pain and joy are also part of the polyphony of life, and ... they can exist independently side by side.
~ Charles R. Ringma
A warless world will come as men develop warless hearts.
~ Charles Wesley Burns
Yeah,' said Blue quietly. 'World peace and free Wi-Fi.
~ Charlie Higson
There will be time to diet when people stopped killing one another.
~ Chelsea Cain
Monster was my world, my inanimate extra limb. Though its weight and size still confounded me, I'd come to accept that it was my burden to bear. I didn't feel myself in contradiction to it the way I had a month before. It wasn't me against it. We two were one.
~ Cheryl Strayed
The rule of staying peacefully with parents is to keep the sarcasm minimal.
~ Chetan Bhagat
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.
~ Chief Joseph
We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
~ Chief Joseph
Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we shall have no more wars. We shall all be alike, brothers of one father and one mother with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the Earth.
~ Chief Joseph
If you wish to live and thrive, Let the spider run alive.
~ English proverb
What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk.
~ Author Unknown
The means by which we live are marvelous indeed. And yet something is missing. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
While I am alive, not a hair on Jewish heads will be touched.
~ Habib Bourguiba
The only Jews who interest us are our fellow citizens.
~ Habib Bourguiba
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
~ Hal Borland
You cn't be suspicious of a tree, accuse a bird or squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet
~ Hal Borland
find one either, and Poochy was a real coon dog. I heard Pat's tail thumping, satisfied. Then he settled down in the straw. Barbara came downstairs to have a before-bed snack with me.
~ Hal Borland
The Prophet spoke well of the Jews, Mukhayraq and Rif??ah, and his own wife ?afiyyah had Jewish relatives that she continued to visit on Sabbath. The idea that all Jews are evil is as absurd as the idea that all Muslims are terrorists.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
Man and rats are merely, so far, the most successful animals of prey. They are utterly destructive of other forms of life. Neither of them is of the slightest use to any other species of living things.
~ Hans Zinsser