Quotes About Diversity

People don't want other people to be people.

It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying it's people who are not willing to hurt other people because the other people are different.

I've invited all the best people. Lords, ladies, authors, ambassadors, debauchers, grave-robbers, perverts, sorcerers, courtesans, deranged scientists, and doll-makers. And a few innocent socialites, of course, but generally I receive polite notes of refusal from their parents—or invitations to be horsewhipped.

I think there may be lots of different types of librarians,' Catherine said thoughtfully. She had the air of someone who'd seen a whole new range of possibilities and found she liked them more than she'd expected. 'There's the sharing librarian, and the motherly librarian, and the spinster librarian, and the archivist librarian, and the adventurous librarian like you — there's nothing that says I can't be a murderous librarian.

students in jeans and duffel coats to people in evening wear. Hot dog stands made no class distinctions

The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.

The differences we have in life won't determine the results we shall have in death.

Natalie's not buggy, she just thinks a different way." The words shoot out of me before I can stop them. I know my dad would not like me talking to the warden and Trixle like this. "Is that so?" Trixle asks. "Yes, sir." I nod to the warden. "It is.

many believe that to treat people equally is the fairest way of working. To treat people who are different equally may be the unfairest thing of all.

Ed. Note: not literally. Just on Planet Amigo.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family

A policy on immigration helps to determine the unity as well as the size of the population. Should Australia so select its immigrants that the society is relatively unified? Or should it select immigrants who promote diversity? Should Australia continue to be dominated by Anglo-Celtic peoples and the English language and institutions? Or should it become the new Eurasia? In choosing immigrants and the pace at which they arrive, how far should we risk social and racial tensions?

The English were the predominant group numerically among the Australian colonists and their ideas and customs gave the new Australia its chief characteristics ... Yet the English majority dissolved into unhyphenated Australians even more quickly than the minorities.

It is all too often forgotten that the whole point of a city is to bring people together, to facilitate interaction, and thereby to create ideas and wealth, to enhance innovative thinking and encourage entrepreneurship and cultural activity by taking advantage of the extraordinary opportunities that the diversity of a great city offers.

A major intent is to show that underlying the extraordinary complexity, diversity, and apparent messiness of the world we live in lies a surprising unity and simplicity when viewed through the lens of scale.

If you tell me the size of a mammal, I can use the scaling laws to tell you almost everything about the average values of its measurable characteristics: how much food it needs to eat each day, what its heart rate is, how long it will take to mature, the length and radius of its aorta, its life span, how many offspring it will have, and so on. Given the extraordinary complexity and diversity of life, this is pretty amazing.

Julian Huxley brought several other new words and concepts into biology, including replacing the much-maligned term race with the phrase ethnic group.

You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels —practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

One man's poison ivy is another fellow's spinach.

I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little more worthy.

One man's poison ivy,is another man's spinach.