Quotes About Diversity

The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

Decidieron que Grajales y Bolaños se dirigirían a Neiva y La Plata por la costa, mientras que el practicante Lozano acompañaría a Salvany rumbo a Cartago, Trujillo y la provincia de Chocó. Cada grupo llevaba seis niños, indígenas o mestizos cuya edad no superaba los diez años.

worship the same gods. They do not even

Se queda un momento en silencio, casi puedo oír el zumbido de lo que está pensando y me explica por fin que no sólo hay una realidad, sino muchas distintas, que cada hombre tiene la suya, y que no siempre coincide su realidad con la del prójimo.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

But if we go in for reservations on communal and caste basis, we swamp the bright and able people and remain second-rate or third-rate. I am grieved to learn of how far this business of reservation has gone based on communal considerations. It has amazed me to learn that even promotions are based sometimes on communal or caste considerations. This way lies not only folly, but disaster. Let us help the backward groups by all means, but never at the cost of efficiency.

whatever happens in Pakistan, quite clearly our task in India is clear; we must pursue with even greater determination than in the past our efforts at forming a secular State in which men of all communities can walk with their heads high.

Truth is one: (though) the wise call it by various names.

A person's right to be human outweighs anybody's human rights to be religious.

those extremes were a difference of degree, not kind. It has been happening in one form

If a woman-in-a-man's body goes after a man, is she attracted to the same or the opposite sex? If a man-in-a -woman's body wants a woman, is he a lesbian or straight? Prejudice is only cowardice in the face of complexity.

Great minds sink alike, right?

You are a republic of voices tonight. Unfortunately, that republic is Italy.

Part of why I love these angry, straight, white punks is that they are stripping the dharma of its bullshit, and applying it to contexts and styles that, even if they aren't mine, are at least different from the norm.

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

A pervert is anybody kinkier than you are

De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum.

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

Maybe the Europeans once thought the earth was flat, but the Eskimos always knew it was round. One only needed to look at the earth's relatives, the sun and the moon, to know that.

Descopeream c? lumea avea multe înf??i??ri care se negau una pe cealalt? ?i c? nu era nimic altceva decât un m?nunchi de puncte de vedere reciproce care se cuprindeau succesiv.

First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You .... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags with my tatters! Mix it all up. ...

Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.