Quotes About Coexistence

The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow

The biggest issue of the twenty-first century is not necessarily the "decline" of neighborhood. It may be that we have all moved to a new neighborhood and have not learned how to get along with the new neighbors.

Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of the fellowship.

Evil at bottom is the refusal to recognize the reality of others, to refuse to restrain ourselves, so that another does not have room to live and develop freely.

Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion.

What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.

Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you (Koran 9:123).

If I'd never found any other reason to advocate pacifism, this would be it; it is so much easier on the nerves not to perpetually be circling your fellow man, hand warily on the hilt of your knife.

How wonderful will it be when all beings experience each other as limbs on the one body of life.

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same.

I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own life.

I have signed a pact with life: we will not get in each other's way

In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.

The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed, Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?- And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?

If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world.

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

For me there is no difference between art and life.

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of time and life.