Quotes about Coexistence

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.

In some countries you love your neighbors, and in others you eat them.

Isn't it ironic that when Islam is in a position of power, Islamic beliefs are forced on everyone, and that when atheism has the upper hand, atheistic beliefs are enforced on everyone? Only in Christianity is the privilege given both to believe and to disbelieve without any enforcement.

I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self-contained.

Being truly human and living in community are inseparable. This wisdom is beautifully captured in an African proverb: "I am human only because you are human."

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

You may say you won't interfere with another person's soul, but you do—merely by existing. The snag about it is the practical difficulty, so to speak, of not existing.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities.

Nor knowest thou what argumentThy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.All are needed by each one;Nothing is fair or good alone.

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.

As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.