Diversity Quotes - page 3

Castilian Spanish speaking Spain is big, but is bigger in addition with Catalonian speaking Spain, Galician speaking Spain and Basque speaking Spain. Democratic Spain, Constitutional Spain, can not be separated from diversity and the respect to the citizenship. (José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero)
The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music. View quote
Krist Novoselic
Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people? View quote
Desmond Tutu
All things... appear to be made up and produced by the coming together of these elements, so that they have been distributed by nature among an infinite number of kinds of things. Hence I believed it right to treat of the diversity and practical peculiarities of these things as well as of the qualities which they exhibit in buildings, so that persons who are intending to build may understand them and so make no mistake, but may gather materials which are suitable to use in their buildings. View quote
Vitruvius
Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity, stability, diversity, resilience, and sustainability–whether they are easily measured or not. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
The diversity of institutions has made possible the combination of government ownership and private enterprise which has been a further characteristic of Canadian development. Canada has remained fundamentally a product of Europe. View quote
Harold Innis
Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality. View quote
Barack Obama
We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith. View quote
Barack Obama
I entertain no doubts as to the truths of the tranfinites, which I recognized with God's help and which, in their diversity, I have studied for more than twenty years; every year, and almost every day brings me further in this science. (Georg Cantor)
We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes. View quote
Franz Boas
The spirit of our age is one in which the prejudices of the past are put behind us, where our diversity is our strength. It is this which is under attack. Moderates are not moderate through weakness but through strength. Now is the time to show it in defence of our common values. View quote
Tony Blair
But as the old confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as some now venture to be, were building the Tower; for by the confusion of their language the unity of their intention was broken up, and their undertaking destroyed; so much more worthy of praise is the present miraculous one. For being poured from One Spirit upon many men, it brings them again into harmony. And there is a diversity of Gifts, which stands in need of yet another Gift to discern which is the best, where all are praiseworthy. View quote
Gregory of Nazianzus
From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers. View quote
Olivia Wilde
New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner. View quote
Ruta Sepetys
Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favor of cultural diversity abroad as well as at home, we need strong cultural diplomacy but we have to create it. View quote
Frederic Martel
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise. View quote
James Surowiecki
On the light side everyone thinks they are the most important, that their own understandings, or their group's understandings, are the key. There's a diversity of cultures and opinions, so there is competition, diffusion, and no single focus. View quote
Carlos Barrios
I love diversity. View quote
Kevin Hart
Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food. (Poppy Z. Brite)
The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot. View quote
Rose Byrne
President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress. View quote
Valerie Jarrett
We are men and women from many lands, representing a rich variety of cultures. And we have been brought together to work in a great common cause: the survival and progress of mankind. The concept of unity in diversity ... underlies our various pursuits at the United Nations. View quote
Kurt Waldheim
Society is unity in diversity. View quote
George Herbert Mead