Peace Pilgrim Quotes

My space expedition has changed my perspective towards people. Looking down at the Earth, we could not see borders or people with different nationalities. It was then that realisation dawned on us that all of us are a group of human beings and citizens of the universe.

Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.

We are all part of one another.

The peoples of the earth are one family.

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

I think the world should be one community.

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

Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.

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.

Our true nationality is mankind.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind

We're one people, and we all live in the same house. Not the American house, but the world house.

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

We are all cells in the body of humanity - all of us, all over the world. Each one has a contribution to make, and will know from within what this contribution is.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

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

People are encouraged by what I do. You can feel it. I feel it. People are ready to embrace their humanity and to embrace the rest of the human race. People are ready for the idea that we're all brothers and sisters and that we need to cooperate with one another.

In a world like this, media can help us to feel closer to one another, creating a sense of unity of the human family which can in turn inspire solidarity and serious efforts to ensure a more dignified life for all.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

When will we learn, when will the people of the world get up and say, Enough is enough. God created us for fellowship. God created us so that we should form the human family, existing together because we were made for one another. We are not made for an exclusive self-sufficiency but for interdependence, and we break the law of our being at our peril.

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.

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.

I think people are universal.