Quotes About Coexistence

El río de la posesión Que todos somos diferentes es un axioma de nuestra naturaleza. Sólo nos parecemos de lejos, en la medida, por tanto, de que no somos nosotros. La vida es, en fin, para los indefinidos; sólo pueden convivir quienes nunca se definen, y son nadie los unos para los otros.

La única libertad que merece ese nombre es la de buscar nuestro propio bien, por nuestro camino propio, en tanto no privemos a los demás del suyo o les impidamos esforzarse por conseguirlo. Cada uno es el guardián natural de su propia salud, sea física, mental o espiritual. La humanidad sale más gananciosa consintiendo a cada cual vivir a su manera que obligándole a vivir a la manera de los demás» (John Stuart Mill, Sobre la libertad).

It has no size at all, the Sergeant explained, because there is no difference anywhere in it and we have no conception of the extent of its unchanging coequality.

Either we learn to live together and embrace the complexity of life, or we will end up with fascism again and destroy ourselves.

We're one of the only animals in the world that don't really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

We need more balance in the world - more balance of the feminine and the masculine.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

On a personal level, we all get along fine.

I try to fix things between the Asian community and the English community. There are always going to be racial things there, not getting on with each other and stuff. I have tried to break that barrier.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

We try to think with 'and' rather than 'or.' It doesn't have to be healthy or tasty. It can be healthy and tasty. It can be wholesome and convenient.

I know the feeling of being with a person with whom I have nothing in common, and yet there they are, and there we are, together, sharing pieces of our lives.

As a practicing Jew, I have studied with Christian teachers whom I respect for who they are and what they are, including their positive concern with Jews and Judaism.

Let's find those people whose names do not cause controversy in our present and in our future. Let's name the monuments and streets for those people whose names do not provoke conflict.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

If we can live a day in peace, then why couldn't we live a week in peace? If we can master a week, why not a month? If we can master a month in peace, why not a year in peace? And if we can master a year, then certainly we can master a lifetime of peace as God's highest creation.

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

We need a wider sense of community because we're all on the same planet.

No one - not a conservative or liberal or whatever - can stand back and 'define' what marriage means. Other people's marriages have nothing to do with mine; whether my neighbors are divorced or gay or widowed will not lead me to change anything about how my wife and I deal with each other or how we raise our children.

Machines and people are both necessary for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, and neither is sufficient on its own.

These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.