Quotes About Diversity

A civilization', he once declared, 'is to be judged by its treatment of minorities.

For sondry scoles maken sotile clerkis; Womman of manye scoles half a clerk is.

As in other species, male humans participate much more often in competitive sports than females. But every human culture invents different sports. We inherit the physical capacities and motivations to learn sports, not the specific genes for football, skiing, or boxing.

Women differ in the exact male height they prefer, but almost always prefer a man taller than themselves. Different ethnic groups may prefer different facial features, but all prefer faces that are symmetrical and averagely shaped for their population. If you don't look for the universals of human beauty at the right level of description, you will not find them.

for all the lip service that the social justice warriors give to 'diversity,' they don't actually care about one of the most fundamental forms of diversity – neurodiversity.

Wir alle sind Narren, es hat keiner das Recht, einem andern seine eigentümliche Narrheit aufzudringen. - Jeder muss in seiner Art genießen können, jedoch so, dass keiner auf Unkosten eines andern genießen oder ihn in seinem eigentümlichen Genuss stören darf.

East and West, as well as North and South, need each other. Our species can no longer afford to be self-divided. Our future depends on whether we as individuals and as societies can learn - quickly - from the experiences of the different branches of our single human family, and discover how to live in harmony with one another.

In yoga . . . many may take one path as a key in order to experience self-realisation while others take another path, but I say that there is absolutely no difference between the various practices of yoga." —B. K. S. Iyengar, The Tree of Yoga, p. 15

If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

People don't have their virtues and vices in sets: they have them anyhow: all mixed.

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

The Christians gave Him Sunday, the Jews gave Him Saturday, and the Muslims gave Him Friday. God has a three-day weekend.

People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a 'common purpose'. 'Cause pretty soon they have little hats. And armbands. And fight songs. And a list of people they're going to visit at 3am. So, I dislike and despise groups of people but I love individuals. Every person you look at; you can see the universe in their eyes, if you're really looking.

On school uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's not a new idea, either. I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German.

I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.

People are wonderful one at a time. Each one of them has an entire hologram of the universe somewhere within them.

I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loath and despise the groups they identify or belong to.

I love people as I meet them one by one. People are just wonderful as individuals. You see the whole universe in their eyes if you look carefully. But as soon as they begin to group, as soon as they begin to clot, when there are five of them or ten or even groups of smallest two, they begin to change, they sacrifice the beauty of the individual for the sake of the group.