we are all the same Quotes

“History shows us we need labels to help define our place. For hundreds of years, people have categorized others as less so they could feel like more. Color, gender, class, religion, physical handicaps, sexual orientation, and pedigree are just a few ways in which one group is divided from another. ”

“The same blood runs in every human on the earth. You just have to see past the variations in skin and culture.”

“At the end, we are all the same, just a body with only our actions and others’ memories to define who we are.”

“It is, I think, that we are all so alone in what lies deepest in our souls, so unable to find the words and perhaps the courage to speak with unlocked hearts, that we do not know at all that it is the same with others.”

“Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.”

“I think the king is but a man, as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.”

“You’re angry because you’re afraid. You all are. Deep down, you’re all the same.”

“I had not thought before of this disfigured robber having had a childhood.”

“The world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble.”

“once you begin to realize that they’re just like everyone else you’ve met before”

“The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”

“I feel like everyone fakes who they really are, when deep down we’re all equal amounts of screwed up. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others.”

“Poor Old Ones! Scientists to the last -- what had they done that we would not have done in their place?”

“You might as well argue with a mirror as argue with each other. After all, aren’t we all really the same person?”