Quotes About Diversity

It is quite likely that a medieval European would decry our own culture in such terms for its failure to venerate the Blessed Virgin with sufficient fervor. Indeed, a wellbred Aztec would doubtless find us odd and emotionally stunted in our deplorable lack of enthusiasm for massive orgies of human sacrifice. We must therefore ask, in good cultural relativist fashion, whether Kellert is merely glorifying his own intense prejudices by describing them as human universals.

Mon vœu, quand j'ai commencé à écrire, a été d'être un écrivain roumain. Comme tant d'autres avant moi, qu'ils aient été grecs (I[on] L[uca] Caragiale, Alexandru A. Philippide), arméniens (Garabet Ibr?ileanu), juifs (Mihail Sebastian, Max Blecher) ou de bien d'autres origines, depuis le Géorgien Antim Ivireanul, jusqu'au « russe » Nichita St?nescu.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience.

Nothing in the world can one imagine beforehand,not the least thing,everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be forseen.

I show that I have understood a writer only when I can act in his spirit, when, without constricting his individuality, I can translate him and change him in diverse ways.

Centripetal force is the synthetic striving of the spirit - centrifugal force the analytical striving of the spirit. Striving toward unity - striving towards diversity. Through the mutual determination of each by the other - that higher synthesis of unity and diversity itself will be produced - whereby one is in all and all in one.

There is no religion that is not Christianity.

Ayn? masallar? dinlemelerine ra?men ötekiler hiç böyle bir ?ey ya?amad?lar.

Alles ist gut, nur nicht überall; nur nicht immer, nur nicht für alle.

i'm a poet who writes in english come to share the worlds witchu

Maybe Jane was right. Maybe he was wrong to have filled her head with tales of Bessie Smith and Josephine Baker, let alone take her to see Jackie Wilson, Etta James, Tina Turner and the Ikettes. Maybe it wasn't right to wake up to Chico Hamilton, Lee Morgan, Charlie Parker, and Art Blakey in the morning. Watch the sunset with Miles Davis, Cecil Taylor, and Little Willie John. But Greer didn't know what else to offer that was beautiful and colored and alive, all at the same time.

Jane didn't miss white folks, she didn't like white folks, she tried not to think about them. She kept her world as colored as she could. There was enough of it. From Langston Hughes to Sojourner Truth, her children's worlds were hardly deprived

También la religión, como la filosofía, debe convertirse en una opción de vida, debe transformarse en una manera de vivir. Así, ninguna religión y ninguna filosofía podrán nunca reivindicar la posesión de una verdad absoluta, válida para todos los seres humanos. Porque creer que se posee la única y sola verdad significa sentirse con el deber de imponerla, también por la fuerza, por el bien de la humanidad.

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

Bagdad-on-the-Subway.

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

If you read novels you sympathize with people who are different kinds of people than you are.

?simler, birbirinden farkl? yarat?klar? ay?rt etmek içindir; bizleri de?il.

Size dünyan?n dörtten fazla buca?? oldu?unu göstermeye geldik

it is a fool who laughs at the odd. Different is just an understanding you have not yet grasped.

Every party has its criminals and its fools, because every party has its men.