Quotes About Coexistence

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

it would be good to reconcile all these antagonisms.

Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us. But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

He squinted thoughtfully, then grinned. "Actually, I thought having him around was pretty cool. People, not the wolf, were the real management issue, and for the most part, they acted in a respectful and responsible manner.

In order to live peacefully with one's neighbor, there is nothing better than not having a single postulate in common.

What kind of people belong to this world?

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

So long as men slaughter animals,' the master said, 'they won't stop killing each other.'1 [KONOPI?TE]

One is reminded of the adage that whether elephants fight or make love, the grass gets trampled.

También la religión, como la filosofía, debe convertirse en una opción de vida, debe transformarse en una manera de vivir. Así, ninguna religión y ninguna filosofía podrán nunca reivindicar la posesión de una verdad absoluta, válida para todos los seres humanos. Porque creer que se posee la única y sola verdad significa sentirse con el deber de imponerla, también por la fuerza, por el bien de la humanidad.

Bu kadar yak?n?mda oldu?unu bilmiyordum ama, sen bir yerde var olursan ya?ayabilirim ancak demi?tim.

Tolerance like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

Human beings are more alike than different—damn sure more alike than we like to admit. I wonder if the same thing wouldn't have happened eventually, no matter which two cultures gained the ability to wipe one another out along with the rest of the world.

Embrace diversity. Unite ----- Or be divided, robbed, ruled, killed By those that see you as prey. Embrace diversity or be destroyed.

Humans had evolved from hierarchical life, dominating, often killing other life. Oankali had evolved from acquisitive life, collecting and combining with other life. To kill was not simply wasteful to the Oankali. It was as unacceptable as slicing off their own healthy limbs.

We couldn't survive as a people if we were always confined to one ship or one world.

This world would be better if people lived according to the teachings of almost any religion.

God isn't good or evil, doesn't favor you or hate you, and yet God is better partnered than fought." "Your God doesn't care about you at all," Travis said. "All the more reason to care about myself and others. All the more reason to create Earthseed communities and shape God together. 'God is Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay.' We decide which aspect we embrace—and how to deal with the others.

Animals that were fashioned for hunting and fighting in the wild were suddenly called upon to be citizens, and moreover citizens of a world-community.

we are both in essence intelligent and sensitive beings, we can rise far above our differences, to reach across the gulf that separates us, and be together in this exquisite union of opposites.

S gledišta prirode nema korisnih i nekorisnih bi?a. To je samo glupavo razlikovanje koje primjenjuju ljudi." str. 156.

Moliwda knows that despite appearances, it is a happy marriage. Meaning: They each do their own thing.

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.