Quotes About Commonality

I have always believed that what brings us together is stronger than what pulls us apart.

The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing.

Their bodies were different as were the color of their eyes, the length of their noses and the circumstances of their existence, but something inside them meant the same thing, wanted the same release, would have left the same impression on the memory of an onlooker.

We all have different lives, Martin believes - but in the end probably feel the same things, and regret the fear we thought might somehow sustain us.

Love is the only unifier in the world. We've all felt exactly the same way. It'll make you crazy and it'll make you ecstatic and that's true for everyone.

most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Thirty-Fifth President of the United States of America, former senator and representative from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Section 45, Grid U-35, Arlington National Cemetery.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Thirty-Fifth President of the United States of America, former senator and representative from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

We are more alike than we are unalike

One man likes oysters, and another likes pineapples; this distinguishes between them. But when they think about the multiplication table, provided they think correctly, there is no difference between them. The irrational separates us, the rational unites us.

My husband and I have very similar backgrounds even though we're years apart. So there are a lot of things that we basically share.

Our religions are much more similar than they are different.

We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not.

Would you be surprised to learn that our problems are not very different from those that people who lived centuries ago encountered? Human beings have not changed much over the years.

Epidermis, epidermis! How could it mean so much, when underneath, all blood was red?

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

You can disagree on everything but still work together on one thing... if that one thing is important enough.

The search for common ground starts with the search for higher ground, even with your opponents, especially with your opponents...You don't have to agree on everything if the one thing you do agree on is important enough.

The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics.

If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game.... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

THE CHOICE, BY BOTH PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELI JEWS, TO TRUST ONE another is perilous. Day after day, the mechanisms of life under occupation succeed in their aim: to disavow the possibility of commonality and coexistence. There

What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.