Quotes About Coexistence

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant towards your over-proximity.

Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own.

The environment," as we call it, is intimately with us. We're in it. It's in us. But also we are it, and it is us.

It might prove out to be," Athey said, "that if we can't live together we can't live at all. Did you ever think about that?

Rats and roaches live by competition under the law of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

Friendship is possible with mice.

they want to join us and live in conscious contact with us. They need us, but more, we need them—their wisdom and their devastatingly accurate insight into the fragile truth of the world.

Through all the ways of our unintelligible world, the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand together.

We were not a happy couple, and not a miserable couple. We were six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. How it was I don't understand, but we always seemed to be getting, with the best of motives, in one another's way. When I wanted to go upstairs, there was my wife coming down; or when my wife wanted to go down there was I coming up. That is married life, according to my experience of it.

Cuando yo sentía necesidad de dirigirme escaleras arriba, he aquí que mi esposa descendía por ella, o bien, cuando ella sentía necesidad de bajar, he aquí que yo ascendía. En eso consiste la vida matrimonial, según mi experiencia.

Animals eat one another without qualm; civilized men consume one another by due process of law. Co-operation

For barbarism is always around civilization, amid it and beneath it, ready to engulf it by arms, or mass migration, or unchecked fertility. Barbarism is like the jungle; it never admits its defeat; it waits patiently for centuries to recover the territory it has lost.

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.

There were three PROs looking after us – a measure of how the army and the mass media were now coexisting and being mutually supportive.

It was as if this early promiscuous mingling of races and ideas, modes of dress and ways of living, was something that was on no one's agenda and suited nobody's version of events. All sides seemed, for different reasons, to be slightly embarrassed by this moment of crossover, which they preferred to pretend had never happened. It is, after all, always easier to see things in black and white.

Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?

like old married people who no longer have anything in common, to do or to talk about, save the same general weight of air to displace and breathe and general oblivious biding earth to bear their weight...

Trabajar con las dos manos es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.