Diversity Quotes

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. (Robert F. Kennedy)
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. View quote
James Madison
The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity. View quote
U Thant
If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity. View quote
John F. Kennedy
The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. View quote
Maya Angelou
What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle. View quote
Marvin Minsky
Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future. View quote
Michael Palin
I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable...has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the globe. View quote
T. H. White
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity. (Ulrich Beck)
Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law. View quote
Cass Sunstein
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. View quote
Christopher Lasch
The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so. View quote
Alan Dean Foster
There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners. View quote
Adam Rickitt
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration. View quote
Carol P. Christ
Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place. View quote
David R. Brower
I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods. View quote
David Soul
Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it! View quote
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal. View quote
Ernest Istook
Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase. (Daisy Berkowitz)
For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome. View quote
Ron Kind
A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus. View quote
Vernon Jordan
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts. View quote
Michael Pollan
The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times. View quote
Blaise Pascal