Quotes About Diversity

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness

You laugh at me because I am different, but I laugh at you because you are all the same.

End discrimination. Hate everybody.

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

Humanity's survival does not depend on reducing differences to a common identity, but on learning to live creatively with differences.

Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best.

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.

And what she wanted more than anything that moment was for all the differences between people to matter no more - differences in size and race and belief....

I love boats. Boats are great. You can get all kinds of places and meet all kinds of interesting people, and you never know if they're going to try to eat you or worship you.

Broad views about life have shrunk into religions, and we have been turned into their symbols. They regard us as empty symbols. Symbols of a religion, a nation. We mustn't be trapped by that. In this war, let that be the ground of your contest. A ground that cannot be reduced to definition and detail.

A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say "Sum!" because he could see no more. But we who lived there saw our street as a world, where everybody was quite different from everybody else. Mam-man was mad; George was stupid; Big Foot was a bully; hat was an adventurer; Popo was a philosopher; and Morgan was our comedian.

Homogeneity breeds weakness: theoretical blind spots, stale paradigms, an echo-chamber mentality, and cults of personality.

Suddenly it becomes possible that there are just others, that we ourselves are an "other" among others.

Let us keep ever in our minds the fact that it is the Ramayana and the Mahabharata that bind our vast numbers together as one people, despite caste, space and language that seemingly divide them.

There are many earthly languages. There are many heavenly languages. There are many blazing, blinding tomorrows. But they all lead to the same glorious tomorrow at last.

Society is a complex and mysterious creation and . it's extremely imprudent to believe in the fact it presents you with at a given moment, let alone to consider it the one and only true face.

No two bodies will decompose in the same way, and at the same rate. You can have two bodies that are literally six feet apart and they will decompose in entirely different manners. It could be the amount of fat on the body. It could be the drugs they were taking, or the medication. It could be the type of clothing they're wearing. It could be that one has a particular odour that is more attractive to flies than the other. Absolutely anything.

Everybody's got the right to go to hell in the handcart of their choice.

My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America.

Die Vermessung der Intelligenz verschiedener Menschen, mit hausbackenen oder statistisch geschliffenen Methoden, irritiert naturgemäß breite Bevölkerungsschichten.

Kendisindeki farkl?l?k kadar, baÅŸka erkeklerdeki farkl?l?k da onu tehdit eder; bunun anlam? onlar?n ibne olduklar?d?r ve ne pahas?na olursa olsun onlardan uzak durmas? gerekir o yüzden bütün erkeklerin benzeÅŸtiÄŸinden emin olmak ister

Yüksek" eÄŸitimin amac? eÄŸitmek deÄŸil, mümkün olduÄŸunca fazla say?da insan? çeÅŸitli mesleklerden d??lamakt?r.

We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides to every story. Unfortunately, there aren't always two sides. Sometimes there's only one; more often, there are multitudes. Many facets on the stone. Nooks and crannies in abundance. Things are usually not either black or white, but multicolored. —Barry Leiba, "Faulty Logic: False Dichotomy

We live in an age of globalisation, but also one of identity politics. It is as if our world is expanding and contacting at the same time.