Quotes About Coexistence

Langdon glanced over at Brüder and Sinskey, who had been staring upward and who now lowered their eyes to earth. "Jesus," Brüder said. "Yes!" Mirsat said excitedly. "And Allah and Muhammad, too!

science and religion are not competitors, they're two different languages trying to tell the same story. There's room in this world for both.

Well, science and religion are not competitors, they're two different languages trying to tell the same story. There's room in this world for both." After that meeting, Edmond had

obligate endosymbiosis

Since the beginning of religious history, our species has been caught in a never-ending cross fire –atheists, Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, the faithful of all religions– and the only thing that unites us all is our deep longing for peace.

and religion are not competitors, they're two different languages trying to tell the same story. There's room in this world for both.

Well, science and religion are not competitors, they're two different languages trying to tell the same story. There's room in this world

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

it had long been accepted that if a species put mankind on its food-chain menu the species would be extinct before long.

Toward more life," said Aenea. "Life likes life. It's pretty much that simple. But more amazingly, nonlife likes life as well Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and wants to get into it.

Evet, efendim. Eski ve yeni polis ve müfettiÅŸlerin Yeralt? Åžehri'ndekilerle yapt?klar? eski bir anlaÅŸma. AÅŸa?? inip hayatlar?n? zorlaÅŸt?rmay?z; onlar da yukar? ç?k?p bizimkini zorlaÅŸt?rmaz. Canl?lar?n çoÄŸunun ölülerle yapmaya çal??t?klar? türden bir anlaÅŸmaya benziyor

The most intractable cause of genocidal killings emerges when competing groups—ethnic, religious, class, or ideological—feel that the very presence of the other, of the enemy, so sullies the environment that normal life is not possible as long as they exist.

You'd think that sweet would be a land far, far away from irritating, but as it turns out they're right next door and always having border disputes.

do not oppose the sun with the moon anymore:

This law … defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.

We make our journey in the company of others; the deer, the rabbit, the bison, and the quail walk before us, and the lion, the eagle, the wolf, the vulture, and the hyena walk behind us. All our paths lie together in the hand of god and none is wider than any other or favored above any other. The worm that creeps beneath your foot is making its journey across the hand of god as surely as you are.

I'm not an anthropology buff, but I've read enough of it to know that the Zuni don't think that their way is the way for everyone, and that the Navajo don't think their way is the way for everyone. Each of them has a way that works well for them .

You must absolutely and forever relinquish the idea that you know who should live and who should die on this planet.

With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?

One thing I know people will say to me is 'Are you suggesting we go back to being hunter-gatherers?'" "That of course is an inane idea," Ishmael said. "The Leaver life-style isn't about hunting and gathering, it's about letting the rest of the community live—and agriculturalists can do that as well as hunter-gatherers.

Diversity, not uniformity, is what works. Our problem is not that people are living a bad way but rather that they're all living the same way. The earth can accommodate many people living in a voraciously wasteful and pollutive way, it just can't accommodate all of us living that way.

THIS LAW THAT YOU HAVE so admirably described defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war." "Yes. As you said, it's the peace-keeping law.

What I said in Ishmael stands: There is no One Right Way to live. What we find among Leaver peoples is that each has a way that works well for them. We may not like one particular way, we may think it atrocious and cruel, but it's their way, not ours, and the most murderous culture in human history is hardly in a position to set itself up as the moral policeman of the world.

The lion that comes across a herd of gazelles doesn't massacre them, as an enemy would. It kills one