Quotes About Coexistence

Monsters,' Geralt said coldly, 'but not the members of intelligent races.

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.

Yet wild things have a far more rational fear of us than is ours of them...

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.

I simply want to live with someone so that I can begin my life.

Our great national drama was a westward expansion that conquered a native population rather than coexisting with it.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

What if 16th century people were right, and the supernatural and natural coexisted? How would that play out?

We are members of one another. What binds us together is far greater than what separates us... because of our interconnectivity, what happens to the least of us happens to all of us. Whatever you do for the least of us, you do for all of us.

I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.

There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs.

We want to lead normal lives, lives where our religion and our traditions translate into tolerance, so that we coexist with the world and become part of the development of the world.

Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.

Leftwing people find it very hard to get on with rightwing people, because they believe that they are evil. Whereas I have no problem getting on with leftwing people, because I simply believe that they are mistaken.

In Indonesia, Malaysia, wherever Muslims are living, they don't want to live in harmony.

Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination.

Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.