DIFFERENCE QUOTES

quotations about differences

We have an instinct, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this, with out mates, with those with whom we talk and deal, and are disappointed and angry, if we find we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other, is difference of opinion.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Society and Solitude


If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations.

WESLEY CLARK

speech, Jan. 20, 2004


There never was anything useful or great, about which men have not differed.

ORIGEN

attributed, Day's Collacon


Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.

BELL HOOKS

Killing Rage


But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.

VLADIMIR LENIN

"Paragraph One of the Rules", One Step Forward


I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

ROBERT FROST

"The Road Not Taken"


If men would once consider one another reasonably, they would either reconcile their differences, or more amicably maintain them.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude


If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you.

VINCENT O'SULLIVAN

The Next Room


In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

COCO CHANEL

Woman's Day, Feb. 17, 2010


A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.

JOSTEIN GAARDER

The Solitaire Mystery


You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.

DOUG FLOYD

attributed, 1,600 Quotes & Pieces of Wisdom That Just Might Help You Out


I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this "In order to love you, I must make you something else." That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.

BELL HOOKS

Reel to Real


Our differences are only skin deep, but our sames go down to the bone.

MARGE SIMPSON

The Simpsons


Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

IVAN TURGENEV

attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes


We lie if we say we do not see color and culture and difference. We fool ourselves and cheat ourselves when we say that all of us are the same. We should not want to be the same as others and we should not want others to be the same as us. Rather, we ought to glory and shine in all of our differences, flaunting them fabulously for all to see!

C. JoyBell C.

attributed, goodreads


In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.

WALTER LIPPMANN

The Stakes of Diplomacy


There is nothing like a sense of difference for getting a man lined up, shoulder to shoulder, with everybody as different as he is, in a dedicated campaign for the Common Good; which means a campaign either for the ramming of that difference down the throat of an ignorant and underprivileged and unholy world--this is only true, of course, in the case of a bona fide holy difference--or, at the other extreme, a campaign for the stamping out of the thing that caused the damned difference in the first place.

KEN KESEY

Sometimes a Great Notion


It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

MARK TWAIN

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson


I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. Because in actual fact, men and women have much more in common than they are separated.

DORIS LESSING

interview, Salon, Nov. 11, 1997