Quotes About Coexistence

Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.

although both were lost in their own individual worlds, they shared the same space and time.

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

Thomas Jefferson's classic formulation: 'it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Ahead the sedgy, flower-starred meadow rose up to a knoll, and there grew an oak tree and a thorn together, in deep embrace, inseparable. She

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

No man is an island, no man stands alone . . . Each man's death diminishes me, because I am involved with mankind . . .

No man is an island entirely of itself. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.

all right we are two nations

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them.

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

Family life is an encroachment on private life.

... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.

Life is not "either or," it's "both and"

I think coexisting with another life form is a very rich experience. It's why people keep plants and animals.

What is life without incompatible realities?

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

His saying was: live and let live.

Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.

In the last few centuries we've managed to reduce how much we kill each other, we've learned some basic lessons about public health, and life is relatively good for more people than ever before.

This life is a dance, not a battle. We are all part of this world, not masters of it.

I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others.