Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

I think the world should be one community.

There is something greater than any nation; it is the spirit which created the nation.

For me, it's important to get back to fundamentally what it feels like to be an American. We all come from different backgrounds, but we come together and create this world. It's like a microcosm for the rest of the world. I want people to feel unity when they come to a show.

I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.

I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago.

No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.

But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.

It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day.

Our true nationality is mankind.

I'm 'of the world'.

Regard the world as your country … good men as your kin, bad men as foreigners.

I would like to embrace all mankind with my love, to warm it and to cleanse it of the dirt of modern life.

All nations and kindreds will become a single nation. Religious and sectarian antagonism, the hostility of races and peoples, and differences among nations, will be eliminated. All men will adhere to one religion, will have one common faith, will be blended into one race, and become a single people. All will dwell in one common fatherland, which is the planet itself.

It's a time where every country and every human should be united. I mean, every country has its problems.

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.

We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.

The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.

Feliz Navidad' has interfaced the English and Spanish cultures to come together and after all, we're living in a multi-cultural world.

Societies are being interconnected and we have to adjust to that fact.

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