Jimmy Carter Quotes

We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.

I think the world should be one community.

I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together.

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

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

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

Creative people have no barriers. Ultimately, it's connecting with human beings. There's just one planet. I don't see it as different countries.

We need a wider sense of community because we're all on the same planet.

The 21st century is significantly different from the 20th century. The old models will not hold anymore. More and more, we are one people on Earth. We need to share our problems.

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

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

Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.

In today's world, the elites are growing even more comfortable with one another across national lines, yet at the same time, less comfortable with low-income people who share their nationality. How we create those bonds of community that are truly global as well as national is one of our generation's great challenges.

There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

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

I think it's really important that we understand that we share this world and we're connected to it.

The whole world is a man's birthplace.

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

There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players.

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

Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it's the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection.

Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.

I think we are all connected in this world.

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.