Quotes about Coexistence
Some people might kill it." "It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness." He continued to carry both twig and larva.
— Carl Sagan
If we can accomplish the integration of the search without obliterating cultural differences or destroying ourselves, we will have accomplished a great thing.
— Carl Sagan
We need the vision of interbeing—we belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces. The well-being of "this" is the well-being of "that," so we have to do things together. Every side is "our side"; there is no evil side.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
— Karl Barth
The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.
— Brother Andrew
Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also.
— Herman Melville
What's all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to myself—the man's a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
— Herman Melville
Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common.
— Miroslav Volf
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
— Bob Marley
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
— Desmond Tutu