Vicky Krieps Quotes

We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind

I guess I just don't see America as separate from Vietnam or Ethiopia. This mentality of 'our team's better than yours' - it's a high school idea. My kids don't see those dividing lines, and I don't want to either.

I think what travelling has done for me and for many generations of my family - my grandmother was a great example - it's really highlighted for me how similar we all are and how many values we all share as people on this planet.

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.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

I don't believe in frontiers, and I don't believe in races or nationalities.

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

… my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders

I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.

We are not a fearful, small people. We are confident and strong, and we understand that much of our strength comes from the fact that we are a people of the planet.

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.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I'd bite off the Beatles, or anybody else. It's all one world, one planet and one groove. You're supposed to learn from each other, blend from each other, and it moves around like that.

What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.

My company, East West, was founded on the premise that people need to group together and not be xenophobic, parochial, or provincial.

The reason I loved working at Boeing was because I loved the idea of air travel as a way of bringing people and cultures together - because when we come together as people and cultures, we realize that we are not that different after all, and when we realize that we are not that different after all, the world becomes a better place.

We want to gather everyone together as one, transcending any barrier of language and culture.

I'd like to see the whole world.

I can't go white, Indian, Asian, Latin. For me, in my existence, if I'm anything, I'm inclusive of everyone, and we are just one, and I hope that global harmony is in all of us.

We people of the world need to find ways to get to know one another - for then we will recognize that our likenesses are so much greater than our differences, however great our differences may seem. Every cell, every human being, is of equal importance and has work to do in this world

I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation.

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.