Criminal Minds, S1E10 (Quote 2)

Loved this quote ... so true.

As we see so much violence around the world, we have to keep in mind that only the ideologies are keeping us separate & driving divisions among us. At the end of the day, all of humanity existing in this world have similar dreams, happy, & painful moments, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, or culture.

We all have similar dreams & experience the same happy moments; getting an education, having a successful job, falling in love with someone... & getting married, having a family, watching children grow, & hence, these happy moments & dreams are easily sharable & relatable.

On the other hand, we all also experience the same painful & sad moments in life, & hence they are also sharable & relatable. For instance, crying over deaths of close ones, losing one's family, seeing others in painful struggle of life & death in the hospital or on the side of the road etc.

A Muslim has similar dreams & moments of anguish as a Christian or a Jew or a Hindu or a Sikh or a Buddhist. A Shia Muslim has similar dreams as a Sunni, & a Catholic suffers the same pain as a Protestant. An Indian has similar dreams & painful moments as a Nigerian, an Australian as a South African, a Chinese as a German, a Canadian as an Argentinian, & an Iraqi as an American.

What we have to keep in mind that it is very easy to blame someone else for something horrible happening in general, or more specifically, to yourself.

For example, we should think why a looter became a looter or killer became a killer or a terrorist became a terrorist. After all, nobody is born a looter or killer or terrorist. Everyone's birth happens in the same way. Something happened in their environment which affected them so adversely that they are exacting revenge on the society by trying to harm their fellow human beings. A looter may have became a looter after unjustly denied of his/her rights & watching others get something unjustly. A terrorist may have become a terrorist after watching his/her family being killed for no reason, whatsoever, except they belong to a specific race or religion or ethnicity with whom our own ideologies clash (back to the point that ideologies divide us).

Criminal Minds, S1E10 (quote 1)

This is my interpretation of this great quote by Sir Peter Ustinov.
  
When someone keeps pursuing their dreams, they keep raising the bar / stakes to achieve ever more of their dreams, to the point that they start to step onto others' dreams & start turning them into nightmares.
 
For instance, Steve Jobs had a dream of combining humans with beautiful & brilliant machines; to make human lives easier & more comfortable. But after achieving his first dream of making Apple 1, he raised the bar & moved on to his next dream of making Apple 2. Then, after achieving that dream, he moved on to his next dream of making Macintosh. After a few hiccups in his career, he then moved on to those colourful Macs, then iPods, iPhones, & iPads.

 
Reading / listening this story of a college-dropout-turned-entrepreneur is very inspiring for people around the world. But we forget how his "super abundance of dreams" turned the dreams of millions around the world into nightmares.
 
For example, cameras in iPhones (& then other OS based phones) destroyed the photographing film & camera businesses, like Kodak, for instance. Kodak employees were thinking of one day retiring into the sunset & seeing their kids go to colleges / universities & then be successful in their lives, but their dreams turned into nightmares, when Kodak went bankrupt.
 
We can take this example into any other latest tech entrepreneur's dreams & how his/her dreams created nightmares for millions of others; dreams of Travis Kalanick (Uber's CEO) & nightmares of taxi drivers, dreams of Kevin Systrom & Mike Krieger (Founders of Instagram) & nightmares of employees of photographic film & camera companies) etc.
 
We can also apply this quote to any one of the industries from tobacco to oil & gas to defence & military to financial services to even geopolitical affairs. Companies in all these industries, & politicians in the geopolitical arena, are trying to achieve the dreams of owners (single owner or multiple shareholders), management, employees, & politicians at all levels, at the expense of creating nightmares for millions around the world with climate change problems, wars, austerity measures, & adverse health conditions (i.e. cancers etc.).