Doris Lessing Quotes

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

All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another

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

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

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.

There's a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike.

At the end of the day, we are all humans.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

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

What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.

I like it that in many ways we are all the same.

I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.

All of us are much more human than otherwise.

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

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

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

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.

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.