Salman Rushdie Quotes

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

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

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.

I think we're all more alike than we want to believe sometimes.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

What I've learned is that at the end of the day, we are all human. We all have that in common.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.

I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with everyone.

It's nice to feel like you have more in common with people rather than more differences.

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.

In this world, and all the things we have going on, we're all human beings.

We are all human beings. We all have the same blood in our veins.

I'm human just like everyone.

Empathy is choosing to see ourselves in another despite our differences. It's recognizing that the same humanity - the same desire for meaning, fulfillment and security - exists in each of us, even if it's expressed uniquely.