Quotes About Coexistence

Nay, if we may openly speak the truth, and as becomes one man to another, neither Pagan nor Mahometan, nor Jew, ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the commonwealth because of his religion.

Além disso, ninguém pode reivindicar, em nome da religião, o privilégio da tolerância, se elimina radicalmente toda a religião mediante o ateísmo.

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.

could pick up what he said.

We eat our mates if we can catch them. Everybody's got some evolutionary baggage that winds up maladaptive in a sophont setting.- "Valuable protein resource." I shrugged. "And it's not as if your species is designed for coparenting.

We get along with carnivorous plants and talking screwdrivers. I don't know what should be so hard about getting along with you.

this community would never be what I wanted. Too many other people wanted it to be different things. It would always have to be a compromise between my ideals and theirs.

I was starting to realizee that we, all of us-Synarche, pirates, Jothari, even the Ativahikas-were living in the ruins of the Koregoi's enormous and shadowy house.

Two decians later, we didn't have any answers, but we'd kind of gotten used to having the not-a-parasite around. And we were still calling it the not-a-parasite, even though it had proven pretty useful.

It was as if two different versions of reality coexisted in my head at the same time.

Who would have thought three separate peaces so irreconcilable?

Time and time again, people have demonstrated that they care about what Rachel Carson called "the problem of sharing our earth with other creatures," and that they're willing to make sacrifices on those creatures' behalf.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.

Modern humans arrived in Europe around forty thousand years ago, and again and again, the archaeological record shows, as soon as they made their way to a region where Neanderthals were living, the Neanderthals in that region disappeared.

The author David Quammen cautions that while it is easy to demonize the brown tree snake, the animal is not evil; it's just amoral and in the wrong place. What Boiga irregularis has done in Guam, he observes, "is precisely what Homo sapiens has done all over the planet: succeeded extravagantly at the expense of other species.

might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.

succeeded extravagantly at the expense of other species.

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.

Aching for one thing and enjoying something else aren't mutually exclusive.

To Clement and his generation, Christianity was not the enemy of philosophy, but its finest and last expression.

the zoologist Konrad Lorenz, whose studies of animal behavior (the best known is On Aggression) stressed Haeckel's notion that animal and habitat—including man and his environment—form a single unit

Better admit that there was some truth both in science and religion; and if they must fight, let it be elsewhere than in the brain of a hard-working scientist.

las tres religiones y sus respectivas manifestaciones sociales coexistieron a menudo en España, pero nunca en plan de igualdad, como afirman ciertos buenistas y muchos cantamañanas.