Quotes for a Culture of Peace - Unity in Diversity

Quotes For Unity In Diversity

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"There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."
-- Alfred Adler
"United we stand, divided we fall."
-- Aesop (620 -560 B.C.)

We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.
-- Mahnaz Afkhami

cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity.
-- Robert Alan
intercultural dialogue is the best guarantee of a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
-- Robert Alan
Okay, we are different it's true.
And I don't like to do all the things that you do.
But here's one thing to think through,
You're a lot like me and I'm a lot like you!
-- Robert Alan

"Peace requires everyone to be in the circle – wholeness, inclusion."
-- Isabel Allende

"We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race."
-- Kofi Annan

"There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity."
-- Isaac Asimov

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
-- Pierre Bayle
In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.
-- Ruth Fulton Benedict
When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?
-- Frank Borman
"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none."
-- Edmund Burke

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
-- Pablo Casals

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.
-- John Comenius, 17th century philosopher

Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.
- The Dalai Lama

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
-- Eugene V. Debs

"We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of other people as their property. And we need at last to form a circle that includes us all, in which all of us are seen as equal.
-- Barbara Deming

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world
-- Democritus

"I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.”
-- Ani DiFranco

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent … any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
-- John Donne
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