Pico Iyer Quotes

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place.

In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy.

We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.

I think the world should be one community.

You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.

God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.

Nation shall speak peace unto nation.

But we should be mindful as we argue about our differences that so much more unites than divides us. We should also note that our differences, when compared with those in many, if not most, other countries, are smaller than we sometimes imagine them to be.

The more reasons for people to be willing to put their differences aside, the better.

Americans know that we have more in common than we do differences.

We in the Joint List are living proof that Arabs and Jews refuse to be enemies.

God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences.

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.