Quotes About Diversity

Yo vengo de todas partes, Y hacia todas partes voy

The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, that is excellent, individual, qualified, and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. And it is clear that this "everybody" is not "everybody." "Everybody" was normally the complex unity of the mass and the divergent, specialized elite groups. Nowadays, "everybody" is the mass alone.

So many things fail to interest us, simply because they don't find in us enough surfaces on which to live, and what we have to do is to increase the number of planes in our mind, so that a much larger number of themes can find a place in it at the same time

Más de una vez me he entretenido imaginando qué habría acontecido si, en lugar de hombres de Castilla, hubieran sido encargados, mil años hace, los "unitarios" de ahora, catalanes y vascos, de formar esta enorme cosa que llamamos España. Yo sospecho que, aplicando sus métodos y dando con sus testas en el yunque, lejos de arribar a la España una, habrían dejado la Península convertida en una pululación de mil cantones.

Although all those who fall in love do so in the same way, not all fall in love for the same reason. There is no single quality which is universally loved.

A única perspetiva falsa é a que pretende ser única.

El caso es que la realidad, como el paisaje, tiene infinitas perspectivas, todas ellas igualmente ciertas y auténticas. La única perspectiva falsa es la que afirma ser la única.

En resolución, únicamente donde los ciudadanos piensan cada uno sus pensamientos, podremos esperar ponernos alguna vez de acuerdo, al paso que donde todos piensan a una no hay acuerdo posible en las opiniones, por la sencilla razón de que nadie opina y todos tienen uno o varios magistrados que se encargan de pensar por ellos.

A los blancos hizo Dios, A los mulatos San Pedro, A los negros hizo el diablo Para tizón del infierno.

Shakespeare: "El hereje no es el que arde en la hoguera, sino el que la enciende". La tolerancia de los ideales ajenos es virtud

Las costumbres y las leyes pueden establecer derechos y deberes comunes a todos los hombres; pero éstos serán siempre tan desiguales como las olas que erizan la superficie de un océano.

He aquí una nueva base para la tolerancia: cada hombre necesita de su enemigo.

El hereje no es el que arde en la hoguera, sino el que la enciende". La tolerancia de los ideales ajenos es virtud suprema en los que piensan.

La tolerancia de los ideales ajenos es virtud suprema en los que piensan.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

Europe is really a swarm: many bees on a single course.

Naglalaho sa loob ng klase ang mga hadlang na itinatayo ng politika upang hatiin ang mga lahi, natutunaw wari sa alab ng kaalaman at kabataan.

The hustle and bustle everywhere, so many carriages and cabs at a dash, Europeans, Chinese, and natives, each dressed after their own fashion, fruit pedlars, messengers, porters stripped to the waist, foodshops, inns, restaurants, shops, carts pulled by philosophical carabaos, the noise, the incessant movement, the sun itself, a certain smell, the riot of colours—he had almost forgotten what Manila was like.

In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.

As a consequence, he faced the unavoidable fact that the Ottoman Sultan was conquering the Byzantine Empire by allowing that Islam and Christianity were not incompatible, and that Christian subjects could live under the secular rule of a Muslim.

What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

Their is beauty everywhere on earth.