«Cultural diversity»

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It’s our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.

Jackie Chan

We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

Cesar Chavez

Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity.

Robert Alan

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life’s exciting variety, not something to fear.

Gene Roddenberry

Diversity creates dimension in the world.

Elizabeth Ann Lawless

I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as the environment will allow it. We see great cultural diversity and large numbers of cultures per unit area in regions of the world in which the environment is really rich.

Mark Pagel

It is never too late to give up your prejudices.

Henry David Thoreau

The world is rational and creative. It’s a wonderful mystery for our minds to discover and celebrate . God’s everywhere and we are all different. That’s the beauty of it-the sheer diversity. What a tapestry to enjoy.

(The Book of the Alchemist)

Adam Williams

He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

Theodore Roosevelt

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.

(The Book of Merlyn)

T.H. White

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.

Mahnaz Afkhami

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Maya Angelou

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Carlos Fuentes

Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

Yo-Yo Ma

Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.

Tyler Cowen

I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.

Donzella Michele Malone

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Stephen R. Covey

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.

Mahatma Gandhi

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

(Commencement Address at American University, June 10 1963)

John F. Kennedy

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.

Ruta Sepetys

The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being YOU: they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.

Wade Davis

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

Mikhail Gorbachev

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

There’s so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.

(Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms)

Mark Knopfler