We hope that the Commonwealth Sports movement is playing a…

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

— Edward Burtynsky

Through social media, we can start a global conversation. This creates an army of advocates - the power really is in the hands of…

— Sam Branson

One of the central challenges for global conversation today is to find ways of getting to understand very different views about gender and sexuality.…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

We can't literally talk with everybody else on the planet or even with representatives of every group. But we can be in favor of…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

Technology has changed our industry, and I think that's opened up different revenue streams and ways to make money and distribute television. It's made…

— Mara Brock Akil

My dream is for my flowers to act as beacons and rallying points across the planet - bringing people together on a global scale…

— Ana Tzarev

The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

— Julius Caesar

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which,…

— Francis Bacon

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

— Thomas Fuller

I would like to thank the Commonwealth Games Federation for the very fair manner in which this matter has been dealt with.

— Kim Collins

Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not…

— Forrest Church

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room, I reckon.

— Bob Hawke

Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we…

— Wendell Berry