Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

I had two roles for which I compromised.

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.

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 think that we're more united than the media would care to admit. We're not as divided as the perception would relay - not in the United States, not anywhere, really, in the world.

The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

Our true nationality is mankind.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another

Mankind's salvation lies exclusively in everyone's making everything his business, in the people of the East being anything but indifferent to what is thought in the West, and in the people of the West being anything but indifferent to what happens in the East.

I no longer see my world as delineated by countries with borders or language, but as seven billion humans living off a single, finite planet.

As much as football can cause war, it can also cause peace. Football is a kind of Geiger counter of civilisation, or a catalyst for good as well as bad.

I think a lot of folks are beginning to feel that the forces that are tearing us apart in this country are stronger than the forces that tie us together. I don't believe that.

One of the things that I really enjoyed playing with Ender was how he's constantly struggling between his brother and his sister. It's like he's got two sides to him. And I've always wanted to play a darker character, and in this film and in the novel, Ender has his moments where he isn't a glorified hero.

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

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

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

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

I always like things that shrink the world for me, that make me feel a strange connection, not just to the person that I'm listening to but to the world.

I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible but existing threads. A kind of literature which talks about a lively, ever-changing world of unity, of which we are a small, but not insignificant part.

Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.

A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.

Humanity are not individuals; we are collective. And if we have difference, we have wars all the time. We have crisis. We need to open our mind. This is the only solution we have.

The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.