Quotes About Coexistence

Peace is important for Israel.

How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.

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

conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

Actually, when you come to understand self-discipline you begin to understand the limits of freedom. You grasp the fact that freedom is never absolute, that it must always be contained within the framework of other people's freedom.

Oh, well," yawned Vernon, "we all know that it's you Christians who go in for whips and tortures and burnings alive. Poor degraded sensualists like myself believe in the motto 'Live and let live.

What seemed to interest and absorb her most was that all that filth, all that chaos of broken limbs and dug-out eyes and split heads was then covered—literally covered—by a church dedicated to San Giovanni Battista and by a monastery of Augustinian hermits who had a valuable library. Ah, ah—she laughed—underneath there's blood and above, God, peace, prayer, and books.

We lived together for a long time,' he said, looking out of a crack-spangled window, 'we have no need to fight.' I bet he is dead now. He had the vulnerable purity and courage that would ensure he was among the first to get whacked on the front.

We stand at an immense fork in the raod. One way is the path of generosity, dignity and a respect for other races and customs; the other leads most certainly to greed, suspicion, hatered and the old, bloody course of violence and waste - and now, God help us, to the very destruction of all the struggles and triumphs of the human race on this earth. My old friends and fellow townsmen: which will it be?

the deep division that exists in the human race, regardless of any other more obvious distinction, between those for whom books are an obsession, and those who are prepared, good-humouredly enough, to tolerate their existence.

Porque na vida há tantos tipos de perspectivas, as chamadas grandes perspectivas, que todos consideram fundamentais, e as que eu chamo microperspectivas, que serão insignificantes, admito-o, mas se tudo é relativo, se a natureza concede que existam águias e formigas, por que razão, digo eu, não se poderá viver como as formigas, de microperspectivas?

People are also animals and it is sheer foolishness on part of a person to even proclaim or consider ever that we are better than other living organism on an intelligence level.

The best and the worst kind of person can't go together, but the rest of the people always.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.

The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.

Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em.

Whoever, therefore, is unfit to live in a commonwealth, is above or below humanity.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

I'm not going to force your participation in a conversation, I'm going to say I can be an example that these things can exist and don't have to be mutually exclusive. Like being a queer artist and being a Christian. Those things don't have to be mutually exclusive and I'm just going to be honest about them so that you know.

Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.