Quotes About Coexistence

Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.

We are not here to just exist; but to find the strength to co-exist.

Our humanist attitude should therefore throughout be to stress what we all have in common with each other and relegate quarrelsome religion to the private domain where it can do [less] harm.

The Indians had only the two alternatives of war or civilization; in other words, they must either have destroyed the Europeans or become their equals.

I have already expressed the conviction which I entertain as to the latter event. *r I do not imagine that the white and black races will ever live in any country upon an equal footing. But I believe the difficulty to be still greater in the United States than elsewhere.

In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom pursuing courses diametrically opposed to each other; but in America I found that they were intimately united, and that they reigned in common over the same country.

Sen de benim kadar uzun ya?asayd?n, zalimlikle yard?mseverli?in ayn? rengin iki tonu oldu?unu anlard?n.?#?romansokakta?

this is before we're living together, before we do the most faithful act of all, mix our separate books into one library)

Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.

There are those who say that heaven and hell are not so far apart. They are not at opposite ends of the world beyond ours, only a step away from one another.

Uncross your knives

In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; and in all things love.

A fish and a sparrow cannot live in the same world. one will gasp for air and the other will drown.

It is above all the children already born that have a right to life—a right to coexistence with adults in a world in which, with or without the help of the church, violence against children has been unequivocally outlawed. Until such legislation exists, talk of the right to life remains not only a mockery of humanity but a contribution to its destruction.

In this quiet corner, the best wild flowers grow, and the first peepers are heard in the spring, even before the snow melts. Here, owls call from the treetops in the early morning, and the irreverent crows hold their noisy conventions. Here, the mother deer has her fawn, and the migrating geese come to rest. It is here that the fox is safe from the hunters.

A skunk is walking by. Skunks don't hurry or hide. The dogs and cats pretend not to notice them. It is best not to.

It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

The worst enemies are the ones that live next door,

Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.

Then, for a while, it was quite still in the old foundry, where the man and the devil lay side by side--although which was which would perhaps have been a matter for theological debate.

There is the True Knot, who live on the road and are in much the same line of work as myself. I leave them be and they are glad to return the favor.

There's no more important mission, because it's folly to think that we can doom wildlife to oblivion and believe humans will be just fine. That's a world I hope to never lay eyes upon.

People are individuals, not groups. We either live together as such, or we abandon any hope of civilisation.