Peaceful Coexistence Quotes

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

  Jiang Qing

  Love, Peace, Coexist

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• I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Believe, Peaceful, Century

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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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• ...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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• North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Religious, Tolerance, Peaceful

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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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• 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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• We Christians bring peace and grace as a treasure to be offered to the world, but these gifts can bear fruit only when Christians live and work together in harmony. This makes it easier to contribute to building relations of respect and peaceful coexistence with those who belong to other religious traditions, and with non-believers.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Religious, Grace

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• The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.

  Tony Blair

  Issues, People, Peaceful

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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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• If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Peace, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2012). “Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future”, p.159, Penguin

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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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• The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Peace, Diversity, Alternatives

  The Observer (London), August 29, 1954.

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• Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

  Abdallah II

  Dream, Design, Occupation

  Abdallah II's Speech at the Mideast summit in Aqaba, Jordan, edition.cnn.com. June 4, 2003.

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• When it comes to training imams, one needs a partner. But if we want the mosques to preach peaceful coexistence, we will have to do something about it. One goal of the conference is to find a partner for the training of imams and teachers of Islam in schools.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Teacher, School, Goal

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble: 'We Have No Relationship to our Diverse Muslim Society'". Interview with Jan Fleischhauer and Holger Stark, www.spiegel.de. September 20, 2006.

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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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• 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

  Diversity, Peaceful, Needs

  "Portfolio for Peace", (p. 14), 1968.

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• For a few moments, attune your mind to the idea of harmony and peaceful coexistence flowing among all peoples and nations. The source of this idea is deep within your heart. As you calmly breathe in and out, picture it radiating from you like a fine, colored vapor gradually covering the face of the earth. See it enter the hearts of everyone, especially those stuck in the mad zones. Feel it circulate everywhere until it comes all the way round and back to you. This is love in action. The source of this love is the Tao. Savor this.

  Stephen Russell

  Heart, Love Is, Ideas

  Stephen Russell (1998). “Barefoot Doctor's Handbook for the Urban Warrior: A Spiritual Survival Guide”, Piatkus Books

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• It's called peaceful coexistence, Santangelo. You should try it and if it works we may sell the idea to the Israelis and Palestinians

  Melina Marchetta

  Ideas, Peaceful, Trying

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• We should all oppose - as Darwin did - views manifestly in conflict with the evidence, such as creationism... But we shouldn't set up this debate as 'religion v science'; instead we should strive for peaceful coexistence with at least the less dogmatic strands of mainstream religions, which number many excellent scientists among their adherents.

  Martin Rees

  Views, Numbers, Peaceful

  "Martin Rees: Atheists should drop anti-religion campaigns" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2011.

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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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• When it comes to the culture, there's no such thing as peaceful coexistence. If we're not defending truth, fighting for Christian values in all of life, the truth will be sacrificed on the altar of mainstream secularism.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Fighting, Peaceful

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• For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Men, Thinking, Order

  "The Limits of State Power in Africa: A Case Srudy of the Democratic Republic of Congo". Book by Georges/Sembe Bakaly (p. 14), 2006.

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• Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Peace, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.152, Best Books on

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