Quotes about Coexistence

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

The Israelis and the Palestinians don't know each other. They live right there, but they've become strangers. And it makes it much more difficult to make peace with a person you really don't know, and that's an obstacle in itself.

we must not speak or think of the land alone or of the people alone, but always and only of both together. If we want to save the land, we must save the people who belong to the land. If we want to save the people, we must save the land the people belong to.

The environment," as we call it, is intimately with us. We're in it. It's in us. But also we are it, and it is us.

It might prove out to be," Athey said, "that if we can't live together we can't live at all. Did you ever think about that?

it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

It seems clear, from reading the daily news if nothing else, that there will always be some in this world who want their holy wars, who will discriminate, vilify, and even kill in the name of God. They have narrowed down the concept of neighbor to include only those like themselves, in terms of creed, caste, race, sex, or sexual orientation. But there is also much evidence that there are many who know that a neighbor might be anyone at all, and are willing to act on that assumption.