Quotes About Coexistence

I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

This new concept ought to be elaborated alongside the religions, in such a way that all people of good will could adhere to it. We ought to promote this concept with the help of scientists. It could lead us to what we are looking for.

living there. That, he says, is what happens to each of us on the day we are born. That is how we enter a family. In a family, we have to get along with a group of people we did not choose to live with, which happens to be the same situation in our relationship with the rest of the world: "The men and women who, for good reasons and bad, revolt against the family, are, for good reasons and bad, simply revolting against mankind.

We are friends, my dogs and I, in spite of evolutionary discontinuity and because of evolutionary continuity.

all living creatures are entitled to respect in their own right, not simply because of the utility they may possess for other humans.

Mine will never be things of purity, strictly one or the other. I am multitude and mosaic. I will give of myself to this kindred land where no thing will ever be exclusively one or another. This is the boundary where all things merge in shades of mixture.

Our own history has shown that we are stronger as a mosaic than a melting pot.

The more we are around people with a variety of life experiences, the more we can understand and value the needs and worth of our fellow citizens.

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.

It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.

Ten thousand years ago, humans plus their pets and livestock accounted for about 0.1% of the terrestrial vertebrate biomass inhabiting the earth; we now account for 98%.

Profiling any segment of society and viewing them as a threat is a sign of intolerance.

Our society needs to become less fragmented and more open to alternative viewpoints.

I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

I live in places where, although I don't take public stands, I'm surrounded by liberals, and I've spent a lot of time in this country talking to people who have very different views than the people I live around and trying to see kind of what's in common beneath those conversations.

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

A political conversation is a conversation in which people with different views come to agreements about how they're going to inhabit this society together.

Republicans aren't bad people. They've got some views that are legitimate... and I'd like to think they believe the same of me.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

The Palestine I know is a place where Christians and Muslims are equal. My mother, a Muslim village girl, attended a Catholic girls' school in Ramallah, and my refugee husband spent the Second Intifada side by side with his Christian brothers from Bethlehem.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous.

I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.