Quotes About Diversity

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women,If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

Books are not men—

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

Overtime my writing style has evolved in part because I try to do something different with each book.

velké bratrství mladých lidí bez rozdílu p?vodu, rasy a vyznání.

I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

if a person of authority talks only to those who agree with him he soon finds himself out of authority. Luke

No one system reveals the entire truth; at best, each organizes one point of view or perspective. We must consider many perspectives, and a philosopher should not imprison his thought in one system.

Religious tolerance is something we should all practice however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

Because it is such a powerful force in the world today, the Western Judeo-Christian tradition is often accepted as the arbiter of 'natural' behavior of humans. If Europeans and their descendant nations of North America accept something as normal, then anything different is seen as abnormal. Such a view ignores the great diversity of human experience.

Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Thus the essence of freedom of opinion is not in mere toleration as such, but in the debate which toleration provides: it is not in the venting of opinion, but in the confrontation of opinion.

Four men may meet under the same lamp post; one to paint it pea green as part of a great municipal reform; one to read his breviary in the light of it; one to embrace it with accidental ardour in a fit of alcoholic enthusiasm; and the last merely because the pea green post is a conspicuous point of rendezvous with his young lady. But to expect this to happen night after night is unwise….

When all think alike, no one thinks very much

Laddove tutti pensano allo stesso modo, nessuno pensa un gran che

It was Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse who said that simply because a person is a member of a specific denomination, there is no reason to suppose that the entire denomination is represented by that person's theology

By the term cult I mean nothing derogatory to any group so classified. A cult, as I define it, is any religious group which differs significantly in one or more respects as to belief or practice from those religious groups which are regarded as the normative expressions of religion in our total culture.

I could hear it from far away, that sound which only very big cities can produce: a sound consisting of all sounds rolled into one: the hum of voices and the cries of animals, bells ringing and the chink of coins, children's laughter and hammers beating metal, knives and forks clattering and a thousand doors slamming - the grandiose sound of life, of birth and death, itself.

Ich weiß, jeder hält sich für normal. Und alle anderen für durchgedreht. Der irrste Irre wie der irrste Irrenarzt. Jedes Gehirn ist anders, jedes Gehirn ist verrückt und jedes Gehirn ist anders verrückt.

Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.