Akira Kurosawa Quotes

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.

Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.

People are combining traditions like never before and finding somehow a fundamental unity for this human race of ours. I think working with each other as Jeff Haynes has done here-we may be surprised to find what deeper unity all human beings have.

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal.

Peace is movement towards globality and universality of civilization

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

I'd like to see the whole world.

Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. Let us love our country, but pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora and fauna and human life that it supports - one planet indivisible, with clean air,... soil and water; with liberty, justice and peace for all.

We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace and development than a world divided along religious, ethnic or cultural lines. In each nation, and among all nations, we must work to promote unity based on our shared humanity.

More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.

As much as I think I've inspired people in the world, I'd like to be more involved bringing about world peace.

The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for it is the salvation of mankind.

The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.

Everyone should strive to be a world citizen. Boundaries were created by man, not the Creator. There is no such thing as THEM vs. US. There is only WE.

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

The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

God bless the universe, God bless Japanese, Chinese, Indians, all of them, and let's have peace.

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.

Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.