Coexistence Quotes

• 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
  • People
  • Help
  • Respect

• The concept of peaceful coexistence has been criticized by many who do not see the need to make the world safe for diversity. I wonder if they have ever paused to ask themselves the question: What is the alternative to coexistence?

  

  U Thant
  • World
  • Question
  • Wonder

• Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Concept
  • Coexistence
  • Priori

• Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Peace
  • Chaos

• It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.

  

  Colin Meloy
  • Live
  • Understand
  • Presently

• I'm often at odds with my colleagues, but I've managed to get legislation passed which will not even be attempted in other states. Rather than use the word "cooperate," I'll say there's kind of a peaceful coexistence, a wary watching of each other. I'm very courteous and polite, and people allow me to be. Some people have applied the term charming to me. I don't use that term unless I'm the snake charmer and they're the snake.

  

  Ernie Chambers
  • States
  • Snake
  • Legislation

• We need to be ambivalent - in the essay, and in life too. Ambivalence - having mixed feelings, entertaining contradiction, living with fluctuation - is a widened embrace. It's about the coexistence of things, and in that light, we have no choice in the matter.

  

  Charles D'Ambrosio
  • Choices
  • Feelings
  • Embrace

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

  

  Widad Akrawi
  • Peace
  • Harmony
  • Coexistence