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Quotes About Coexistence

When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.
~ Dalai Lama
This is our greatest challenge: learning to live in a crowded and interconnected world that is creating unprecedented pressures on human society and on the physical environment.
~ Jeffrey Sachs
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
~ Emile M. Cioran
We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
~ Alan Lightman
You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.
~ Richard Mitchell
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
~ Theodor Adorno
Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.
~ ROBERT HUGH BENSON
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
~ William James
As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
~ Terence McKenna
We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.
~ David Simon
I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.
~ Christopher Reeve
I think we live in a pluralistic society where we have to get along with each other and show common grace to each other.
~ Rick Warren
We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.
~ Nelson Mandela
The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
I think it is really, really important that those of us who have deep faith lives don't feel that we could just substitute our own views for everybody else in society, regardless of their views.
~ Tim Kaine
When you have increased migration of peoples and ethnic and religious minorities, you develop a set of rules and language the larger society can accept and the minority community can accept.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.
~ Victor Hugo
Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.
~ John Robbins
We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.
~ Jonathan Sacks
The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals
~ Mahatma Gandhi
All necessary steps needed to be taken to tackle terrorism will be adopted...but we will keep in mind that a particular religion or section of society does not face problems unnecessary
~ Manmohan Singh
I believe whether it is the United States or Europe, they will all end up as multicultural societies.
~ Manmohan Singh
Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.
~ Lewis B. Smedes