Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

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.

In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.

The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?

We people of the world need to find ways to get to know one another - for then we will recognize that our likenesses are so much greater than our differences, however great our differences may seem. Every cell, every human being, is of equal importance and has work to do in this world

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.

I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

I don't believe in frontiers, and I don't believe in races or nationalities.

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.

Unexpectedly, I'm here now, so I need to let all the U.S. marketers know that Asians are not different. We are all the same.

All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same.

The curse of the human race is not that we are so different from each other, but that we are so alike.

My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some of you all may pray differently than I do, some of you all may be from a different ethnicity, but we all have the same story.

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.

Every country is different, every league is different - all the culture.

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

World travel and getting to know clergy of all denominations has helped mold me into an ecumenical being. We're separated by theology and, in some instances, culture and race, but all that means nothing to me any more.

We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially. [...] It's our common humanity that defines us.

The ways in which we are similar are far more numerous than the ways in which we are different.

We're all brothers and sisters. It doesn't matter what language you speak or what color your skin is.

Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device!