Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Surowiecki

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

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.

Dan Simmons

Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.

Cliff Martinez

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

Colin Quinn

I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different.

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.

This set of photos shows the diversity of things we've been seeing on Mars during the last several months,

Robert Lanza

When you get down to a few dozen members of a species you're really talking about very serious problems, ... So this is a tool. From now on that there's no need ever really to ever lose that genetic diversity that's remaining in these wild populations.

We've got the same kind of diversity as in the previous years. We have some of the same genres this time, since Irish music and Cajun music have been such big hits.

We were told by the police that we were not welcome at the diversity rally.

We will do a program for a problem area. We are doing one on religious diversity soon.

Vandana Shiva

Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.

Vandana Shiva

We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.

Meher Baba

...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.

Pope Francis

Whenever people listen to one another humbly and openly, their shared values and aspirations become all the more apparent. Diversity is no longer seen as a threat, but as a source of enrichment.

Rabindranath Tagore

If God had so wished, he could have made all Indians speak one language... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.

Pierre Bayle

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

Phillip E. Johnson

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

Pope Benedict XVI

Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another.

Terry Eagleton

It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?

Thomas a Kempis

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

Linda Ronstadt

American radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.

Phil Donahue

There's a reason we seperate Church and State. The reason for the richness and the diversity of religion in this nation is because of the seperation of Church and State, and there are people out there who can't wait to make this nation a nation of one religion... THEIR religion.

Phil Collins

Deep inside us we're not that different at all.

Joseph Farah

Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.

Kofi Annan

Tolerance, inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more essential than ever in a world where peoples are becoming more and more closely interconnected.

Rachel Sklar

If you DON'T have diversity around your boardroom table, then what is wrong with you?

Richard Posner

A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, because people see things differently

Richard M. Nixon

For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.

Vandana Shiva

Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

Richard Dawkins

I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned.

Wangari Maathai

We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own – indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. This will happen if we see the need to revive our sense of belonging to a larger family of life, with which we have shared our evolutionary process.

Tony Shalhoub

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.