Quotes About Diversity

REGINA, REGINA PIGMEORUM, VENI Come Queen, Queen of the Pygmies

Their menu points out that: "It took Vikings many centuries to create the smorgasbord. It brings you the fish of the sea, the meats of the range... the fruits of the land and the wings of the sky in a gracious gesture of hospitality and welcomes you to the meal that follows....

First, the inhabitants of the world according to this calculation, amount to about seven hundred and thirty-one millions; four hundred and twenty millions of whom are still in pagan darkness; an hundred and thirty millions the followers of Mahomet; an hundred millions catholics; forty-four millions protestants; thirty millions of the greek and armenian churches, and perhaps seven millions of jews.

Fourthly, a very great proportion of Asia and Africa, with some part of Europe, are Mahometans; and those in Persia, who are of the sect of Hali, are the most inveterate enemies to the Turks; and they in return abhor the Persians.

Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Variety's the very spice of life.

Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all it's flavour.

It is natural human impulse to think of evolution as a long chain of improvements, of a never-ending advance towards largeness and complexity in a word, towards us. We flatter ourselves. Most of the real diversity in evolution has been small-scale. We large things are just flukes an interesting side branch.

I assume he was descended from apes like all the rest of us, but clearly in his case it had been a fairly gentle slope.

After his seven years of study, the young Muhammadan binds his turban upon a head almost as well filled with the things which appertain to these branches of knowledge as the young man raw from Oxford—he will talk as fluently about Socrates and Aristotle, Plato and Hippocrates, Galen and Avicenna; (alias Sokrat, Aristotalis, Alflatun, Bokrat, Jalinus and Bu Ali Sena);

On another occasion, when a party of two hundred Muslims turned up at the Palace demanding to be allowed to slaughter cows – holy to Hindus – at 'Id, Zafar told them in a 'decided and angry tone that the religion of the Musalmen did not depend upon the sacrifice of cows'.

Whatever their many vices, wrote Shushtari, the English welcomed and rewarded talent: 'the English have no arbitrary dismissal,' he noted, 'and every competent person keeps his job until he writes his own request for retirement or resignation. More remarkable still is that they take part in most of the festivals and ceremonies of Muslims and Hindus, mixing with the people. They pay great respect to accomplished scholars of whatever sect.

For two thousand years Jerusalem has brought out the least attractive qualities in every race that has lived there. The Holy City has had more atrocities committed in it, more consistently, than any other town in the world.

This afternoon I was sitting quietly with some twenty roughs when I noticed a sudden hush come over the room. I glanced nervously round and observed that forty pairs of eyes were on me...I was reading a book. They had never seen someone read a book before. They were like natives watching a white man shave.

points to the church at Antioch as a kind of ideal local church, in part because every social group is represented. That church was the only place Herod's brother (an aristocrat) and a slave (considered very low) could have been drawn together. Antioch was also a strategic church because its members were all "tellers

Those who champion democracy, but make a fetish of never accepting anything they don't agree with -- what advantage do they see in democracy?

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own

I've always subconsciously looked out for the total Christian and when I found him he turned out to be a non-practicing Jew.

By the war's end, non-Chileans constituted 53 percent of the first engineers; 20 percent of the second engineers;

You southerners, he said. I've been here for fifteen years and I'll never understand you.