Abbas Kiarostami Quotes

The world has only one border. It is called humanity. The differences between us are small compared to our shared humanity. Put humans first.

We are all alike, on the inside.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

Our true nationality is mankind.

But we Americans are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

We are one species, one people. Every individual on this earth is a member of 'homo sapiens sapiens,' and the geographical variations we see among peoples are simply biological nuances on the basic theme.

We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world.

People used to say I'm regional, but I'm not... We all have the same human condition.

Governments are different, and philosophies are different, but when it comes down to it, a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher. A butcher is a butcher is a butcher. We are people. And we are far more common than we ever imagine.

I have grown to understand that no matter where we come from, human beings, at heart, are the same. Defining ourselves based on race, religion, and ethnicity is like betraying that.

I believe that we are fundamentally the same and have the same basic potential.

The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one god.

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.

Think of all the different features from Asian to African to Aboriginal to Caucasian. But we are all within the same species, Homo Sapiens.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.