Mark Pagel Quotes

Science is the one culture that's truly global - protons, proteins and Pythagoras's Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It should transcend all barriers of nationality. It should straddle all faiths, too.

If I make a speech, I need a translator. But music does not need a translation. People understand me through the sound. That I think is very important. This is just one planet, like one family.

I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.

I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

The whole earth was of one language and one speech.

A common language is critical to cohesion and national identity in an ethnically diverse society

The first time I was in London, I went to an English greasy spoon to get some breakfast and realised that all the waiters were speaking Italian. That's when it hit me what an international city this is.

I think we are living in an age where we really need to have bilingual leaders so that we can communicate with our constituents.

We've all seen these projections of how society is going to look in 50 years. We're all going to have to deal with each other culturally.

I think the thing that allows me to go into so many markets is that I can speak all the languages. Korean, Chinese, English, whatever. Thank you, my parents, for teaching me all the languages.

My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling.

It's good to be around an English manager.

None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of 'Babel 2.'

It comes from within to not be ashamed of our brothers and sisters who have accents.

Nothing has done more to bring people of different races and different backgrounds together than athletics, certainly more than politicians have done. It's why the Greeks invented the Olympics.

Music has no language barriers and this has been proved right several times by the Chennai audience.

I have three championships in a country where I don't speak the language.

I'm Irish, working for a Spanish brand, owned by a French company.

You have to have a little humility if you're Danish because you're never going to be able to travel outside the country unless you can speak another language.

If you look at our world, we're becoming so much more diverse in every sense of the word. It's not just about culture or identity. It's also about the different ways we communicate.

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.