Dwight Schultz Quotes

An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other stories!' We humans forget how alike we are, living in a world that only reminds us of our differences.

Think of all the different features from Asian to African to Aboriginal to Caucasian. But we are all within the same species, Homo Sapiens.

Notwithstanding the varieties of the human form, there is but one and the same species of man throughout the whole earth.

The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.

How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We're all in this rat race together!

Meeting people from different countries makes you realise that everyone around the world has the same needs and aspirations.

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.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people.

If you actually get down to the nitty-gritty of the average Pakistani, the average Indian, the average whoever, what you really do know emotionally is that they're exactly the same.

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

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

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

The whole world is a man's birthplace.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.

People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.

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.

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

Our true nationality is mankind.

I love how small the world is.

We're all connected, related, part of one another's lives through the stories we tell ourselves and each other. For good and for bad.