Coexistence Quotes

• The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Peace, Diversity, Alternatives

  The Observer (London), August 29, 1954.

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• Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.

  Jimmy Carter

  Peace, Freedom, Opportunity

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• It's coexistence or no existence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Diversity, Existence

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• We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Community, Choices

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• Coexistence and personal peace are at the heart of global peace and harmony.

  Widad Akrawi

  Heart, Harmony, Personal Peace

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• ...instead of giving a rifle to somebody, build a school; instead of giving a rifle, build a community with adequate services. Instead of giving a rifle, develop an educational system that is not about conflict and violence, but one that promotes respect for values, for life, and respect for one's elders. This requires a huge investment. Yet if we can invest in a different vision of peaceful coexistence, I think we can change the world, because every problem has a nonviolent answer.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Educational, School, Thinking

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• If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Relationship, Peace, Money

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.615, Best Books on

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• God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Differences, Tolerance, World

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• Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other.

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Light, Hot And Cold

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life”, p.35, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.

  David K. Shipler

  Lying, Civilization, Diversity

  David K. Shipler (2015). “Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land”, p.28, Broadway Books

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• I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.

  Vaclav Havel

  Helping Others, People, Needs

  "The Language of Hatred, Increasingly Normalized by Trump" by Michael Gerson, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 2, 2017.

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• Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Beautiful, Wall, Break

  "Poet of the Arab world" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2002.

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• I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.

  Ginni Rometty

  Positive, Inspiring, Strong Women

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• Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.

  Che Guevara

  Country, Powerful, Peaceful

  Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.326, Ocean Press

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• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

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• The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

  Bertrand Russell

  Two, Justice, Progress

  "Marriage and Morals". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. 20, p. 301, en.wikiquote.org. Marriage and Morals.

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• The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Education, Peace, Passion

  Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women in Beijing, China, August 31, 1995.

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• Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence.

  Garrett Hardin

  Differentiation, Ecology, Ecological

  Garrett James Hardin (1961). “Biology, its principles and implications”

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• There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.

  Jiang Qing

  Love, Peace, Coexist

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• There is no alternative to the peaceful coexistence of cultures.

  Salman Rushdie

  Peaceful, Culture, Alternatives

  "'Terror Is Glamour'". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.

  Mike Connolly

  Thanksgiving, Vegetarianism, Turkeys

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• The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Peace, Book, Technology

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• ...to make the world safe for democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong Women, Tyrants, Differences

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1985). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

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• Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.

  Naoto Kan

  Technology, Men, Nuclear

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• We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.

  Yasser Arafat

  Death, Blood, People

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