Quotes About Coexistence

Without close and reciprocal relationships with other animal beings, we're alienated from the rich, diverse, and magnificent world in which we live.

All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.

Our interactions with animals tell us a good deal about how we perceive ourselves, who we are as animals. Our interactions with animals run deep, and in very pragmatic ways, these interactions affect both ourselves and the animals involved. Simply put, when we harm other animals we hurt ourselves, and when we protect and nurture other animals, we heal ourselves.

Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them less than us.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

The way to peace is to be content with yourself, honor the light of reason within, live in harmony with others, and be grateful to the gods for the universe and your role in it.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

To the world: Your harmony is mine. Whatever time you choose is the right time. Not late, not early.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

39. The things ordained for you -- teach yourself to be at one with those. And the people who share them with you -- treat them with love. With real love.

Tres son las relaciones. Una con el recipiente[388] que nos contiene, otra con la causa divina a partir de la cual suceden a todos todas las cosas y otra con quienes convivimos.

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better, or bear with them.

That you are part of nature, and no one can prevent you from speaking and acting in harmony with it, always.

How beautifully Plato put it. Whenever you want to talk about people, it's best to take a bird's-eye view and see everything all at once—of gatherings, armies, farms, weddings and divorces, births and deaths, noisy courtrooms or silent spaces, every foreign people, holidays, memorials, markets—all blended together and arranged in a pairing of opposites.

Men are born for the sake of each other. So either teach or tolerate. p82

Thus, in a narrower sense, the dream of God is a social and political vision of a world of justice and peace in which human beings do not hurt or destroy, oppress or exploit one another.

Let the soldier yield to the civilian

We are survivors, of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others.

Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.

This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win.

In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology.