Quotes on Cultural Differences

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Because of the great differences in our ways of thinking, it is inevitable that we have different religions and faiths. Each has its own beauty. And it is much better that we live together on the basis of mutual respect and mutual admiration.

Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries. What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.

At the foot of the cross, there are no racial barriers.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace