Quotes About Diversity

After twenty years in Canada, there are certain American lunatics who still fascinate me.

The galaxy is full of creatures that are nothing like us at all. We can try to understand them, and we should. But even if we acccept that they're doing what comes naturally, one is not beholden to comply when the sarlacc asks for dinner.--Ben Kenobi

What but faith in the goodness and uniqueness of its essential principles could unite and sustain a country as diverse as America? What but faith could have enabled the country to survive the trials of the Revolution, the chaos and grief of a civil war—

I find it a pity that freedom to disagree was not tolerated here today." Cooper

The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.

Ha a demokrácia a világ leegyszer?sítése elleni állandó harcot jelenti, úgy a nacionalizmus állandó harc azért, hogy megsemmisítsék a sokrét?séget, olyan akarat, amely bizonyos dolgokról nem akar hallani, választott tudatlanság, nem az ártatlanságé.

What shocks the virtuous philosopher delights the chameleon poet.

To be thrown among people who care not for you, with whom you have no sympathies[-] [it] forces the Mind upon its own resources, and leaves it free to make its speculations [on] the differences of human character and to class them with the calmness of a Botanist...

Oh, New Orleans is such freedom.

Pese a lo que han estado sometidos, los negros son una gente bastante agradable en general. Yo había tenido poca relación con ellos, en realidad, pues sólo me relaciono con mis iguales, y como no tengo iguales, no me relaciono con nadie.

And who knows? Those people might have much better things to do than to loiter about Levy Pants, such as composing jazz or creating new dances or doing whatever those things are that they do with such facility.

We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing." Athenians found "the fruits of other countries" to be "as familiar a luxury as those of [their] own." The walls made their citizenship global.

Albanian dogs go "ham ham." In Catalan, dogs go "bup bup." The Chinese dogs say "wang wang," the Greek dogs go "gav gav," the Slovenians "hov hov," and the Ukrainians "haf haf." In Iceland, it's "voff," in Indonesia, it's "gong gong," and in Italian, it's "bau bau.

All blue-eyed people are mutants. The first ones appeared as recently as 5,000 years ago.

British moths include the Uncertain, the Confused, the Magpie, the Lackey, the Drinker, the Streak, the Ruddy Highflyer, the Buff Arches, the Figure of Eighty, the Anomalous, the Dark Dagger, the Lettuce Shark, the Isabelline Tiger, the Waved Tabby and the Mother Shipton.

There are over 1,200 species of bat in the world and not one of them is blind. There are 4,800 species of frog in the world but only one of them goes 'ribbit'. Eight times as many people belong to the National Trust as to the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties combined. Every human being starts out life as an arsehole: it's the first part of the body to form in the womb.

the Massachusetts School for Idiotic Children

I liked him as a bloke, and I like a lot of their songs. I like "Girls On Film," and I can't pretend otherwise. I don't have hatred for different forms of music, in fact I've got a great deal of love and openness to everything done by anybody. Christ, I have to: I've got two Alvin Stardust albums.

But I don't call it immigration, I call it migration. As a species it's very healthy for us to get up and move around the planet. Sometimes certain groups of people have to do that for economic reasons. Nobody's doing it just to be spiteful. Everybody loves the idea of a homeland. I used to, but I've kind of got the bigger picture now. It's a home planet to me.

Better choices require some thought and sacrifice but are respectful of other thoughtful and innovative animals with which we live. And ultimately our tough choices will sustain our natural diversity.

Species diversity can be thought of as an insurance policy against today's environmental change and tomorrow's new evolutionary challenges.

Maailmakõiksus siin meie ümber on paljas maailmakõiksus, ei kehvem ega ülevam sellest, mis laotub pealinna hurtsikute ja üürimajade ja templite ja kontorite kohal. Maailm on maailm, elu on elu, kõikjal seesama.

Don't assume that everyone on earth has seen every movie you have seen.

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.