Quotes About Coexistence

J'admets la part de l'autre dans la constitution de mon destin.

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.

Never lose your temper on a man in whose world you live in

If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.

Why should we take the diversity of human cultures less seriously than the diversity of animal or plant species? Ought not our just desire to preserve our environment extend to the human environment itself? Our world would be a dreary place, both from the natural and from the cultural point of view, if the only surviving species were those we consider "useful," together with a few we judge to be decorative or that have acquired symbolic value.

herkes kendi tanr?s?na, diÄŸerlerinin dualar?n? susturmas? için yakar?yordu.

I came from here, you came from there. And now we're both sitting at the same table.

A qui donc appartient le monde ? A aucune race en particulier, à aucune nation en particulier. Il appartient, plus qu'à d'autres moments de l'Histoire, à tous ceux qui veulent s'y tailler une place.Il appartient à tous ceux qui cherchent à saisir les nouvelles règles du jeu - aussi déroutante soient-elles - pour les utiliser à leur avantage.

oui je précise et j'insiste: pourquoi l'Occident chrétien qui a une longue tradition d'intolérance, qui a toujours eu du mal à coexister avec "l'Autre" a-t-il su produire des sociétés respectueuse de la liberté d'expression, alors que le monde musulman, qui a longtemps pratiqué la coexistence, apparaît désormais comme une citadelle de fanatisme?

Néanmoins, force est de constater que, dans le monde d'aujourd'hui, nulle part on ne parvient à faire vivre ensemble, de manière équilibrée et harmonieuse, des populations chrétiennes, musulmanes et juives.

Ce que je regrette, c'est la disparition d'un certain état d'esprit qui a existé du temps des empires, et qui considérait comme normal et légitime que des peuples vivent au sein d'une même entité politique sans avoir forcément la même religion, la même langue, ni la même trajectoire historique.

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

Are we so hierarchical that we can't respect a creature that lives beneath our feet?

I say let all the earth be alive and overwhelmingly so. Let the sky be pressed to bursting with wings, beaks, pumping hearts, and driving muscles. Let it be noisy. Let it make a mess. Then let me find my allotted space. Let me feel how I bump up against every other living thing on this earth. Let me learn to spin.

Conversations across religions need not, and should not, end with all participants proclaiming an ultimate unity of belief. Such an exercise only waters down both traditions into a bland universalism that, in an attempt to be inoffensive, winds up offending everyone.

All human beings are my neighbors. We share the same planet. Ana Monnar

Insane Europeans who plot to cut each others' throats, now that one and the same civilisation enfolds and unites them all!

Debemos amar la virtud, pero es bueno saber que se trata de un sencillo recurso imaginado por los hombres para vivir unidos cómodamente

The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree

The life of a couple is lived on the mental level of the more mediocre of the two beings who compose it.

Pasaulis sutvarkytas taip, kad aš pats atsakau ir už graž? or?, ir už audr? - ir ne vien savyje, bet aplink save.

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.