Quotes About Differences

The host of Protestant differences only rarely erupted into full-scale doctrinal battle, though Protestant violence against Anabaptists was a sad reality throughout the sixteenth century, and intra-Protestant disagreement leading to violence was known in several places throughout Europe.

Don't get me wrong – it's not that I don't like people. Some of my best friends are people. It's just that chimpanzees share too many of our more unpleasant characteristics. They gang up on one another, indulge in office politics, beat up and bully weaker individuals, lie, gossip and bear grudges.

But it is also, and more basically, because if this century has shown one thing, it is that politics cannot be reduced to economics: differences in values and ideologies must be taken seriously and not simply regarded as foils for class interest. Fascism, in other words, was more than just another form of capitalism.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

I believe our differences are the little pinches of salt that can make the marriage seem more flavorful.

A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought in making you.

We're too different now. We want different things. And this?" I say nodding at our hands. "All this managed to prove is that you are extremely good at turning me off

The fact that we're all different is the one thing we all have in common.

I don't think this is working out between us, " I told him. "You and I want different things. It's not me, it's you.

Entertainers have no brain...I get frustrated when I hear things like that from people. We have different goals. We have our own ways. I try to do the best I can, but still.

I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.

Men and women, women and men, It will never work.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are a number of irrelevant differences. But it is clear that until social expectations for men and women are equal, until we provide equal respect for both sexes, answers to this question will simply reflect our prejudices.

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love

Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.

Minds differ still more than faces.

The differences between Buber and Hegel far outnumber their similarities. But they are at one in their opposition to any otherworldliness, in their insistence on finding in the present whatever beauty and redemption there may be, and in their refusal to pin their hopes on any beyond.

the challenge of leadership when trying to generate adaptive change is to work with differences, passions, and conflicts in a way that diminishes their destructive potential and constructively harnesses their energy.

We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

Love is appreciating your differences as well as your similarities.

My wife and I no longer have anything in common but our differences.