Quotes About Diversity

The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.

Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.

TheSc ots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.

One man out of every five who lands on our shores is a foreigner- i.e. non-Anglo-Saxon. He comes here with a foreign tongue, foreign ideals, foreign religion, with centuries of ignorance and oppression behind him, often bringing with him problems that the best statesmen of Europe have failed to solve.

If we can find out why the idea rather than the nation of Canada can win a growing loyalty rather than commanding it, then, it seems to me, we shall have come very near to trapping the elusive creature, the Canadian Identity.

The immigrant who comes to Canada really sees the country much more as a whole. He doesn't know the nuances which are so important and so dearly beloved by the Torontonian or the Montrealer.

You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.

In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?

Every one is as God made him and oftentimes a good deal worse.

Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.

Circumstances alter cases.

We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.

Colors speak all languages.

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Other times, other customs.

Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain, - That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinese is peculiar.

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.