The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

 

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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As quoted in The Observer [London] (29 August 1954)

 

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Two world wars were fought to make the world safe for democracy. Today we have to wage a war on all fronts. This war has to be waged in peace time, but it has to be waged as energetically and with as much total national effort as in times of war. The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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

 

The fact that atomic war may break out, isn't that class struggle? There is no alternative to class struggle. This is a very serious question. The be-all and end-all is not peaceful coexistence. After all, we have been holding on for some time, and under Stalin we held on to the point where the imperialists felt able to demand point-blank: either surrender such and such positions, or it means war. So far the imperialists haven't renounced that

 

Vyacheslav Molotov

 

If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine. So-called alternative medicine either hasn’t been tested or it has failed its tests.

 

Richard Dawkins

 

We should aim for peaceful coexistence at least and transcultural synergy at best.

 

Nayef Al-Rodan

 

One of the key ingredients of coexistence and successful cooperation is trust.

 

Nayef Al-Rodan