Dalai Lama Quotes

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

This is a country where Jews and Arabs speak without fear. Where people come from different cultures the world over. Where everyone becomes Brazilian rapidly.

Tolerance, inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more essential than ever in a world where peoples are becoming more and more closely interconnected.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

I'm a mirror glass for the Muslims as well as the Western world, which looks at me in a slightly different way, but they are looking in the same mirror.

Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.

As an American, and especially as a Christian, I am convinced that a love for our own people is not a bad thing, but love doesn't stop at borders. Love is infinitely boundless and all about holy trespassing and offensive friendships.

Society is unity in diversity.

Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.

I think the world is always going to be as diverse as it always has been.

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

My schools were quite diverse - those who serve their country come from every race and religion - and so the military schools I attended were a wonderful melting pot.

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us.

I've traveled around the world, and what's so revealing is that, despite the differences in culture, politics, language, how people dress, there is a universal feeling that we all want the same thing. We deeply want to be respected and appreciated for our differences.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.

The main hope of harmony in our troubled world lies rather in the plurality of our identities, which intertwine with each other and are resistant to drastic divisions

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.

America is made of different races and different religions, but we're all co-travelers on the spaceship Earth and must respect and help each other along the way.

We have to accept the world has become this place where we have to interact with people who are very different from us.

We - what we need is a dialogue among civilizations. And we need multiculturalism, respect for diversity, tolerance, respect for diverse faiths.