Quotes About Coexistence

During the Second World War, the good people of the great Mosque in Paris looked after many of the city's Jewish population, supplying them with Muslim identity certificates so they would not be taken away to concentration camps.

What is man," said Chief Seattle, "without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to man.

Man is not naturally a ferocious wild beast. On the contrary, he loves, ordinarily, to live in peace and quietness, to till his lands and tend his flocks, and to enjoy the blessings of peace and repose.

Gerçekten de insanlar?n birbirine tahammül edebilmesi için belli bir eÄŸitim ÅŸart.

Nothing has ever been out of place in this existence. Things have been out of place in human societies.

Our lives become beautiful not because of what we do, our lives becomes beautiful simply because we have included everybody around us as a part of our dream of well being.

We the people share Planet Earth together, as one people, one nation, and one destiny. So, why do we say we are so different from each other? When indeed, we are not. Yes, we have our own personal preferences, beliefs, and values. But we also have many similarities in common. And the biggest one is living on Planet Earth. And sharing the lands together, as one human race among many other humans."

God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.

This belief in the underlying brotherhood of all people would blend seamlessly with his message of peace as he carved out his role as an international peace advocate.

You know, we've got to do it someday... throw away all the guns and invite all the jokers from the North and the South in here to a cocktail party... last man standing on his feet at the end wins the war.

From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soullessness of men.

A gull planed steeply over their heads, a precarious flash of white against the windy blue sky. The short, hacking cry of a baby seemed to merge seamlessly for a moment with the gull's repetitive wail, as if they were one species. One species, Falkender thought, raucous and scavenging; one species calling out in pain. To be human is to be mixed and miscegenated like this. To be lost.

Being human in our modern civilization is being forced into a boxing ring with Nature. And we're bloodied every time.

I shall speak of love... and of hate. It is truly a marvel, but I tell you, hatred and love may live cramped together, crouching in the same heart.

It is truly a marvel, but I tell you, hatred and love may live cramped together, crouching in the same heart. There are many secret chambers in our hearts where love can hide and many battlements where hate can stand, watching for enemies.

Staying with people consists in your not having your own way, and their not having theirs.

So, let us not be blind to our differences--but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor—it requires only that they live together in mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement. And history teaches us that enmities between nations, as between individuals, do not last forever . . .

Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life.

as a rule the highlanders and lowlanders had a tacit agreement to ignore one another.

If each human being is to have liberty, he cannot also have the liberty to deprive others of their liberty.