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All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.
JOHN RALSTON SAUL, Reflection of a Siamese Twin
Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
IVAN TURGENEV, quoted in 20,000 Quips & Quotes
Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, Dirty Hands
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
DOUG FLOYD, quoted in 1,600 Quotes & Pieces of Wisdom That Just Might Help You Out...
It seemed ... such nonsense -- inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.
VIRGINIA WOOLF, To the Lighthouse
What’s Bagism? It’s like... a tag for what we all do, we’re all in a bag ya know, and we realised that we came from two bags, I was in this pop bag going round and round in my little clique, and she was in her little avant-garde clique going round and round, and you’re in your little tele clique and they’re in their...ya know? and we all sort of come out and look at each other every now and then, but we don’t communicate. And we all intellectualize about how there is no barrier between art, music, poetry... but we’re still all "I’m a rock and roller, he’s a poet" ... so we just came up with the word so you would ask us what bagism is, and we’d say "WE’RE ALL IN A BAG BABY!"
JOHN LENNON, The David Frost Show, Jun. 14, 1969
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 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
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
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
COCO CHANEL, Woman's Day Magazine, Feb. 17, 2010
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