Quotes About Differences

One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because... we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

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

International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all differences, but they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to peace as surely as water wears away a hard stone.

Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading way to approach politics.

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.

What advice Phelan could possibly have given him. All these myriad differences between the world he was discovering and the world he'd been taught. There was nothing in Yeats or Eliot or Browning to cover this: had the situation been reversed, Phelan would probably have been coming to him for advice. He wondered how Eliot would have fared against the look in Sutter's dead eyes.

Psychologists and other social scientists have been studying human sex differences for 100 years, and in recent decades have demonstrated that many of the differences that emerge in Western cultures are found in every other culture in which they have been studied.

The fault of opposition", he remarked, "is a determination to make differences where few exist and those trifling.

On the whole, their message to their students remained steady: that science was good and metaphysics was bad. As Neurath put it to Feigl in 1938, "what we have in common will remain; as products of their time, the differences will fade.

We modern-day humans tend to exaggerate our differences. The results of such exaggeration re often catastrophic. Between war, slavery, imperialism and sheer day-to-day racist oppression, the last several centuries have seen so much human suffering justified by minor differences in human appearance that we can easily forget just how minor these differences really are. By any biologically meaningful standard, living humans are barely distinguishable.

A path is formed by walking on it.... When there is a separation, there is coming together. When there is a coming together, there is dissolution. All things may become one, whatever their state of being. Only he who has transcended sees this oneness. He has no use for differences and dwells in the constant. To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness.22

What differences can we observe in the brains of men and women? Can we use those differences to test the hypothesis that the brains of gay men are more likely to be partly feminized and the brains of lesbians are more likely to be partly masculinized? In

Thank God there aren't 1.6 billion Trumps.

We have our differences since the beginning of America. It's a legitimate difference. What is the role of government, et cetera, federal, state, local?

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that people start emphasizing what we have in common.

Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions.

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.