Quotes About Diversity

La vie, l'amour, l'espèce ne sont pas chiches.

I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.

It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding our own, and be prevented from thinking that everything contrary to our customs is ridiculous and irrational, a conclusion usually come to by those whose experience has been limited to their own country.

that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.

It is good to know something of the customs of different people in order to judge more soundly of our own, and so that we might not think that all that which is contrary to our own ways be ridiculous and contrary to reason, as those who have seen nothing have the habit of doing.

It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think.

Ka?de indywiduum przejawia tendencj? do czucia si? "bardziej innym" od wszystkich bli?nich i równocze?nie ka?da kultura przejawia tendencj? do my?lenia o sobie nie tylko jak o ró?nej od innych, lecz ponadto jak o maksymalnie ró?nej od innych, bowiem ka?da kultura podtrzymuje owo uczucie "inno?ci" w?ród pozostaj?cych w jej kr?gu jednostek.

Where the successful or failed dialogues between Christianity and other cultures are concerned, we could go on for hours.

Le leggi del desiderio sono universali ma non comportano l'uniformità delle opere romanzesche, nemmeno sui punti di applicazione. La legge fonda la diversità e la rende intelligibile. L'unità romanzesca appare a condizione che smettiamo di considerare il personaggio - il sacrosanto individuo - come una entità perfettamente autonoma e scopriamo le leggi dei rapporti fra tutti i personaggi.

So long as western people imagine that there only exists a single type of humanity, that there is only one 'civilization', at different stages of development, no mutual understanding will be possible.

We cannot help noticing that, like all propagandists, the apostles of tolerance, truth to tell, are very often the most intolerant of men.

A mere glance at things as they are is enough to make it clear that the aim is everywhere to reduce everything to uniformity, whether it be human beings themselves or the things among which they live, and it is obvious that such a result can only be obtained by suppressing as far as possible every qualitative distinction.

Comme si pendant le temps de notre vie, et moins encore, la France était en train de changer de peuple : on en voit un, on fait la sieste, c'en est un autre, ou plusieurs autres, et qui paraissent appartenir à d'autres rivages, à d'autres ciels, d'autres architectures, d'autres mœurs — c'est ce qu'ils semblent penser eux aussi.

America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

You can't change the way people are. You have to accept them just like you want them to accept you.

Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best.

When I consider myself superior to anyone, as I frequently do, I need a better reason than his skin.

To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices.

The ideal human agreement is one in which distinctions of race and color and religion are totally disregarded; anyone helping to preserve those distinctions is postponing that ideal; and you are certainly helping to preserve them.

Labels are for the things men make, not for men.

What are you, a scientist, or an artist?" Wolfe was frowning at him. "If you please, Mr. Jarrett, no labels. Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

My favorite spot on earth is only a seven-minute walk from where I live, Nero Wolfe's house on West 35th Street: Herald Square, where you can see more different kinds of people in ten minutes than anywhere else I know of. One day I saw the top cock of the Mafia step back to let a Sunday-school teacher from Iowa go first through the revolving door of the world's largest department store. If you ask how I knew who they were, I didn't, but that's what they looked like.

The ideal human agreement is one in which distinctions of race and color and religion are totally disregarded;