Diversity Quotes - Page 12

Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack the language that you share with your enemies and invent a language that you share with your allies.

In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.

The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism or the diversity of cultures, but on the inscription and articulation of culture's hybridity. It is the inbetween space that carries the burden of the meaning of culture, and by exploring this Third Space, we may elude the politics of polarity and emerge as the others of our selves.

It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.

We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

Diversity drives innovation – when we limit who can contribute, we in turn limit what problems we can solve.

Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.

There's no use diversifying into unknown companies just for the sake of diversity. A foolish diversity is the hobgoblin of small investors. That said, it isn't safe to own just one stock, because in spite of your best efforts, the one you choose might be the victim of unforeseen circumstances. In small portfolios, I'd be comfortable owning between three and ten stocks.

In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have enjoyed seeing the diversity that craft brewery has fueled across the Nation.

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality.

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?