Quotes About Difference

You mean, I suppose, that society here is not as brilliant? You're right, I daresay; but we belong here, and people should respect our ways when they come among us. Ellen Olenska especially: she came back to get away from the kind of life people lead in brilliant societies.

Ali znate, nas dve smo toliko razli?ite: ona voli da bude dobra, a ja volim da budem sre?na.

Here is the thing you must bear in mind," Roosevelt said, clearly irritated. "I do not represent public opinion: I represent the public. There is a wide difference between the two, between the real interests of the public, and the public's opinion of these interests. I must represent not the excited opinion of the West, but the real interests of the whole people.

Frankenstein is actually an equivalent of how a gay person feels growing up.

Their reputation and their language encouraged them, however, to despise the ignorance and to overlook the progress of the Latins. 93 In the love of the arts, the national difference was still more obvious and real; the Greeks preserved with reverence the works of their ancestors, which they could not imitate;

I've decided that, as somebody's pointed out, the older you get, it's very difficult to tell how much younger anyone else is. I mean I can't really tell the difference now between people who are fifteen and people who are thirty-five.

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

To be psychologically healthy, we have to believe that what we do has some effect on what happens to us. Even if the perception of control is delusional, it usually leads to more productive action than believing that what we do makes no difference.

Le racisme est la dévalorisation profitable d'une différence" ou, plus techniquement, "le racisme est la valorisation, généralisée et définitive, de différences réelles ou imaginaires, au profit de l'accusateur et au détriment de sa victime, afin de légitimer une agression".

Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.

no me condenes, dije llorando como nunca he llorado, pidiéndole, rogándole, sos tan diferente, dijo, tan diferente, aquí sus ojos serios porque calculaba, sí, sin duda calculaba que yo iba a traer el escándalo de la poesía a su vida calculada de horarios y encuentros nada entrañables, negándome como quien se niega al sol, ocupado en preparar su suicidio. El mío vendrá pronto. Yo no puedo vivir. Esto lo sé. Lo he sabido siempre. Siempre lo supe. Ahora lo sé.

Sueño Un grupo de ciegos, lanzando insultos, se golpean con sus bastones. Uno de ellos me quiere atacar. Le digo: «No es necesario que se pelee conmigo. Yo no soy ciego».

Following Nietzsche's arguments concerning the genealogy of the word "good"(and "evil"), one could also say that the main difference between "masters"and the "herd" (as the new masters) is that masters are the ones who "give names" (and can thus say "this is so-and-so") whereas the "herd" fights for the -interpretation- of these names ("this -means- so-and-so"). Yet this interpretation is itself a form of mastery, and is often much more tyrannical than the act of "giving names".

Sexuality and sexual difference are absolutely, and irreducibly, linked to the signifying order, yet this does not mean that sexual difference is a symbolic construction. Sex is real because it marks an irreducible limit (contradiction) of the signifying order (and not something beyond or outside this order).

a vast gulf separates a great leader from a very good manager.

A shoe that fits one person pinches another.

It's intriguing. I've always felt like a freak myself. But what would it be like, to wear my freakishness on the outside, to have it be obvious to the world?

For it is an observation, as true as it is trite, that there is nothing men differ so readily about as the payment of money.

The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens, and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended

Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit.

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

Though what is understood as religious sentiment comes next to the love of individuals for each other in the extent of its influence, it has produced much verse, but, it must be allowed, little poetry, the reason probably being that the religious sentiment of the few who are endowed with the gift of writing poetry differs from that of the average "religious" person.