Quotes About Coexistence

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy

Humanity's survival does not depend on reducing differences to a common identity, but on learning to live creatively with differences.

We are not that different than animals- an orangutan is 97 percent the same as humans, one day we may be the ones going under their rules

I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence. They want to be told this publicly. They want to know that those 'at the top' are on their side. They feel recognized and cultivated. For it to develop and have an impact it must hear that the world does not ridicule it.

knížka Podivná doba] Michnik: V existenci ateistických civilizací v?bec nev??ím. Dokud existuje civilizace, trvá i potÃ…â"¢eba metafyzického. Mohou existovat ateisté, ale nem?že existovat ateistická civilizace.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

no hay civilización que no entrañe un cierto número de actos bárbaros y no hay barbarie que no contenga algún germen de civilización.

balancing opposing influences

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

Toleration is the best religion.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

You never depend only on yourself, you never live only for yourself, and you have to realize that our most intimate thought, that we most own, is bound by a thousand bonds to that of the world. And he who speaks, he who writes is essentially someone speaking for all those who are voiceless.

We are an integral part of beauty, not something separate.

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

Love creates an "us" without destroying the "me".

If we approach Nature with , it will serve us as our best friend, a friend that won't let us down.

The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.

If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it!

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations we should do so with compassion.

We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.

Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.

The octopuses seemed to be neither friends nor enemies, but in a state of complicated coexistence.

Today we will admit that we are your dogs, but you must first write it there, that the other tribes are the fleas on our backs.