Quotes About Coexistence

We may never find a way to live in suburbia with deer as we do with raccoons, say, or squirrels. So for this reason, it's very important that we make sure always to save enough wild or open land so that they can live in their normal manner.

Strictly speaking, one never 'keeps' bees - one comes to terms with their wild nature.

The tension between Jews and Arabs tears us apart.

The tension between Stephen's atheistic stance and my faith always existed, but neither of us tried to convert the other. I am not evangelical.

Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses.

Pepsi and Coke have to co-exist on the shelf for the long term because if they pull each other down, no one's going to drink carbonated soft drinks anymore.

I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them.

I want to separate from the Palestinians. I want them to have their independent, separate state on a contiguous territory, and I want Israel to exist, of course, as a Jewish state in its own territory, as an independent state in its own territory. The Palestinian state, the Israeli state, separate. This is my dream.

It's never right to fight terror with terror.

I have never been affected by terror, but here in Iran, I have never felt any ill will toward me - the opposite, actually.

The Palestinians have arrived at the conclusion that nothing can be achieved using terror.

Terror outfits like ISIS don't believe in a plural society and diversity of faith, which reflects inherent beauty of human beings.

Indonesia is the world's third-largest democracy. And we also have the world's largest Muslim population. This demonstrates that democracy and Islam are not incompatible. Terrorism is not associated with any religion.

Terrorism does not disappear with revenge tactics but through making justice and equality before law a reality.

The fight against terrorism is not a confrontation against any religion.

The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy.

Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

We are not fighting against the Palestinian people, and we are not at war with Islam. We are fighting against terrorism.

I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along.'

The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.

Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong.

I am not saying all Muslims are wrong or are terrorists or criminals. You will never hear me say that.

they were Muslims who had a long history not unlike Christian history—namely, marching into countries where a bunch of folks thought differently than you about life and God and you ground your righteous heel into their throats. I was an infidel. But not inside here. In this house—and on the most threadbare couch in the most desolate, rubble-strewn vacant lot—coffee and tobacco were the common sacraments of the whole human race.