Quotes About Diversity

Pois este é um mundo louco e ficará mais louco se permitirmos que as minorias — sejam elas de anões ou gigantes, orangotangos ou golfinhos, adeptos de ogivas nucleares ou de conversações aquáticas, pró-computarologistas ou neo-ludditas, débeis mentais ou sábios — interfiram na estética.

Você precisa entender que nossa civilização é tão vasta que não podemos permitir que nossas minorias sejam transtornadas e agitadas.

Non è che ognuno nasca libero e uguale, come dice la Costituzione, ma ognuno vien fatto uguale. Ogni essere umano è a immagine e somiglianza di ogni altro; dopo di che tutti son felici, perché non ci sono montagne che ci scoraggino con la loro altezza da superare, non montagne sullo sfondo delle quali si debba misurare la nostra statura! Ecco perché un libro è un fucile carico, nella casa del tuo vicino.

So I thought the best thing for me is a place so different that all you got to do is open your eyes and you're entertained.

Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.

The sense of this, it seemed to me, might be that from above or below, or from any point of the compass, the creative Word might be heard, which is the great thesis of democracy.

each religion is a kind of software that has its own set of signals and will work. If a person is really involved in a religion and really building his life on it, he better stay with the software that he has got.

You must understand that each religion is a kind of software that has its own set of signals and will work.

There are more kinds of fools than one can guard against.

Fine fellows—cannibals—in their place.

the men, the women, the children; the old with the young, the decrepit with the lusty—all equal before sleep, death's brother.

Fine fellows—cannibals—in their place. They were men one could work with, and I am grateful to them.

Let the earth and the sea each have its own.

And Mrs Verloc, in her varied experience, had come to the conclusion that some foreigners could speak better English than the natives.

If one group's economic opportunities leave it much poorer than other groups, then the interactions of the first group with people from other groups will be limited, and it is likely to develop a different culture. Then ideas about intrinsic differences of the poor group are more likely to take root and to persist.

Entre 1995 y 2005, por ejemplo, los inmigrantes fundaron el 52 por ciento de todas las nuevas compañías de Silicon Valley.[41] Y fundaron, a su vez, más del 40 por ciento de las empresas incluidas en 2017 en el listado Fortune 500 de Estados Unidos.[42]

Some Promised Land. The honey was there, but the milk we brought in with our goats. To people in California, God gives a magnificent coastline, a movie industry, and Beverly Hills. To us He gives sand. To Cannes He gives a plush film festival. We get the PLO. Our winters are rainy, our summers hot. To people who didn't know how to wind a wristwatch He gives underground oceans of oil. To us He gives hernia, piles, and anti-Semitism.

What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.

the historian must be part hedgehog and part fox; that is, he must know "one big thing" and several "little things," must pursue a unifying vision while remaining sensitive to the peculiarities and the bedeviling varieties of his subject.

When the first American colonies were founded, William Bradford—Webster's distinguished ancestor—spelled the same word differently in the same sentence; his orthography and grammar were regarded as legitimate expressions of his personality.

We all understand in theory that we should be able to love and respect those with whom we disagree, but few of us can do so. Often, people end up concluding that there is something deficient either in the intelligence or character of those with whom they disagree. Quite characteristically, this is what liberals and conservatives commonly think of each other, that their opponent has something wrong either with his head or his heart.

once you've crawled into what's commonly thought of as the sordid underbelly of life, you realize it's all just different versions of normal.

There's a strange lack of knowledge about the role of drag queens in our culture. I attribute this to the appalling state of our country's education system. Others might blame an utter lack of interest. Who am I to judge?

There's a strange lack of knowledge about the role of drag queens in our culture. I attribute this to the appalling state of our country's educational system. Others might blame an utter lack of interest. Who am I to judge?