Quotes About Diversity

We cannot stand alone. With 80 million people in this world of today, you cannot, when you just stand on your own, achieve much even though you may be economically strong.

Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.

The most amazing combinations can result if you shuffle the pack enough.

There's a ton of amazing music that's not getting heard.

From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

It's really amazing that two people from such different backgrounds and geographical origins ever got together. That was perhaps part of the attraction.

Equality for everybody is great. That would be amazing.

There is a use for everyone.

Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.

There is no good reason for the government to treat homosexuals as a special category of persons.

cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety")

Franklin's idea for a multidenominational church where all who accepted "the existence of a supreme intelligence" could come together in celebration of common ideas of morality rather than fixed religious doctrines

I find all of them beautiful, the plump and the pudgy, the slim and the muscular, those who stand like solid tree trunks, the tiny ones who move like ping-pong balls, lovely, amusing, and brilliant. Although most of them are illiterate, they've always been mistresses of microeconomics with their balls and burlap and other mutual aid fundraising.

Roll up your sleeves and work as a bouncer in a sex club or a warden in a lunatic asylum or a machine operator in a slaughterhouse. Drive a taxi for six months and you'll have enough money to make a film. Walk on foot, learn languages and a craft or trade that has nothing to do with cinema. Filmmaking — like great literature — must have experience of life at its foundation. Read Conrad or Hemingway and you can tell how much real life is in those books.

their vulnerabilities, while different, may be profound.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything

So do extremes meet; and such is sometimes the all-embracing capacity of the approval of a fool!

Many men, many opinions, as one of the ancients said, before my time.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

A knowledge of history may teach us that civilization is a co-operative product, that nearly all peoples have contributed to it; it is our common heritage and debt; and the civilized soul will reveal itself in treating every man or woman, however lowly, as a representative of one of these creative and contributory groups.

Morality, like art, is the achievement of unity in diversity; the highest type of man is he who effectively unites in himself the widest variety, complexity, and completeness of life.

All those fascinating varieties of terrain—mountains and valleys, fiords and straits, gulfs and streams—that make Europe a panorama of diverse delight, have broken the population of a minor continent into a score of peoples cherishing their differences, and self-imprisoned in their heritage of hate.

The object of philosophy, therefore, is to perceive unity in diversity, mind in matter, and matter in mind; to find the synthesis in which opposites and contradictions meet and merge; to rise to that highest knowledge of universal unity which is the intellectual equivalent of the love of God.

There is no cure for such antipathies except a broadened education.