Quotes About Coexistence

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Competing absolutisms respect each other more than either respects those who are allergic to absolutes as an absolute principle.

When social spaces begin to be created outside the direct control of the state (including commercial ones, run for profit), civil society can start to flourish in unexpected ways. Learning just to sip alongside a stranger makes for a potable kind of pluralism.

The experience of the world broadens with the reality of other creatures made vivid within it.

We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.

What should the sleeping arrangements be in a ménage-à-trois? Is it polite to read while two people have sex beside you?

There was once a Charcoal-burner who lived and worked by himself. A Fuller, however, happened to come and settle in the same neighbourhood; and the Charcoal-burner, having made his acquaintance and finding he was

We owe it to the fields that our houses will not be the inferiors of the virgin land they have replaced. We owe it to the worms and the trees that the building we cover them with will stand as promises of the highest and most intelligent kinds of happiness.

We must live with our enemies as if they might one day become our friends, and live with our friends as if they might some time or other become our enemies'.

Când doi oameni sunt meniÈ›i s? tr?iasc? împreun?, exist? - pur È™i simplu - în cele din urm? - un sentiment în?l??tor È™i reciproc, în temeiul c?ruia ambele p?rÈ›i v?d lumea exact la fel.

I am the soul brother to everything that lives, to the giraffe and to the crocodile as much as to man.

You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them killing each other for a percentage.

Man and thranx had been so close for so long that they were no longer thought of as aliens. More like short people in shiny suits.

In the heart of darkness, a flower blossoms, enriching the shadows with its promise of hope... In the fields of light, an adder coils, and the radiant tranquility is lent savor by its sinister presence. Right and wrong, black and white, good and evil...all my existence I have looked from one to the other, fully embracing neither one...never before have I understood how much they depend on each other.

The news that is brought to us is nearly always bad news, but for every act of violence or destruction that occurs there are a million acts of peaceful friendliness.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

is not about making the world a peaceful place; it is about us being at peace with the world.

Vyasa thus shows how confrontation and conflict does not necessarily happen when one is right and the other is wrong; it can happen simply because two people follow different value systems.

Once, while wandering in the woods, they came upon the carcass of a wild buffalo teeming with maggots. 'How disgusting,' cringed Shilavati. 'I don't think the maggots will agree with you,' said Prasenajit. Shilavati realized the wisdom in her husband's simple words. The human way is not the only way in this world.

Our relationship with the other, be it a thing or an organism, and the other's relationship with us, is what determines our humanity. And this is a timeless (sanatana) truth (satya), a discovery of our ancestors,

conflict does not necessarily happen when one is right and the other is wrong; it can happen simply because two people follow different value systems.

Civilization comes into being when the small fish is rescued from the big fish; civilization comes to an end when the fish keeps growing bigger than its pond.