Quotes About Commonality

One common origin unites us all, but every sort of wood does not give the perfume of the lignum aloes.

The advantageous situation of the capital and of the territory is necessarily a part of the common stock; and all men who inhabit the same city and country must breathe the same air, and enjoy the same climate.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

I remember loving pencils. I was fond of paper. I loved the small of textbooks. I loved the way the light from a desk lamp was bright on a page. I loved the smell of fresh-cut grass. It was a thing everybody loved, but there was no shame in being that much like everybody else, in sharing that.

the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all

I'm going to guess Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, all want clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. I'm sure most people think women should be paid the same as men if they're doing the same job. I think we all want good schools for our kids. If we made that list, we actually are in agreement on more things.

Women and men just aren't that different. Oh, we're different in some intriguing ways, and it can be fun to band together for all-gal or all-guy projects. But when it comes to the tragic mess Christ came to heal, we're pretty much the same.

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

Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people.

I like to believe that we are more alike in our positive experiences than in our negative ones that what binds us is stronger than what separates us.

However one defines man, the same definition applies to us all.

we're all leading lives that are different and yet the same

We're all alive, but we don't know why or what for; we are all searching for happiness; we are leading lives that are different and yet the same

What is it? That you are imperfect, too? Like the rest of us? Victor, did you suppose I did not know you've made errors, mistakes, and perhaps worse? If not, what would we have in common? You might forgive my flaws, but you would never understand them. There would always be blemishes you would prefer were not there. Can you really forgive, if you have no need to be forgiven?

Why are you focusing on how different you are from one another, and not on the things that unite us?" The

I rather regretted that I did not myself have a sister who was a friend and with whom I could compare myself, the better to understand both my singularity and our commonality.

It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.

This contemporary version of the old struggle between "enclosure" and the "commons," between exploitation and commonality, pretty much sums up the stakes: not what new powers we can bring into the world, but what hard-won practices we can prevent from disappearing

Despite all the talk of diversity and division--of red and blue states, of black and white and brown people, of rich and poor, gay and straight--Paul believed that Americans were shockingly similar. How can we be so different, thought Paul, if we all know the lyrics to the same one thousand songs?

Lo que no comprendieron al comienzo es que tenían un nexo común que iba más allá de su sorprendente pelo rojizo. Cada una de ellas, a su manera, era vulnerable.

Everybody on this earth was born," he said. "It's the one thing we all have in common.

I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?

Governments are different, and philosophies are different, but when it comes down to it, a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher. A butcher is a butcher is a butcher. We are people. And we are far more common than we ever imagine.