Differences Quotes

“Why was it that just because his body was different from everyone else's, they thought they could ask whatever inappropriate questions they wanted?”
― Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials

“Never try to look like everyone else, my dear," Great-Grandmother said placidly. "It doesn't pay to be like everyone else.”
― Shirley Jackson, Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

“Well, I won't call on foreigners," Mary said.

"You can't treat them the same as you'd treat regular people," I said.”
― Shirley Jackson, Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

“We are aware that conflict was for a long time the defining narrative of our species, but we have shown that the narrative can be changed. The differences between us, of race, place, tongue, and custom, these differences no longer divide us. They interest and engage us. We are one.”
― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“We're all different, our family. Except the twins. They do all right. Maybe because they're normal. Or how to act it. But then I wonder what normal is, anyhow, or isn't.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeline Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“We're trying to do something. It would be easy--for now--to take Charles out of school. We thought about that immediately, even before he ...But Charles Wallace is going to have to live in a world made up of people who don't think at all in any of the ways that he does. and the sooner he starts learning to get along with them, the better. Neither you nor Charles has the ability to adapt that the twins do.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeline Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)

“Being different is not a reason for shame. Shame is wearing the mask of conformity to conceal your differences.”
― Daniel Gumiero

“Women are more likely than men to have higher disgust sensitivities, which fits with their greater sensitivity to smells generally, though this does not result un differences in perception or consumption. Other individual differences include proneness to mood dysregulation, like bipolar disorder and major depression, such that more intense and prolonged periods of negative affect -sadness and fear- are experienced.”
― Leighann R. Chaffee, A Guide to the Psychology of Eating

“Our conversations have the power to dissolve the illusion of our differences.”
― Troy Hadeed, My Name Is Love: We're Not All That Different

“Yo no busco en las personas ni la bondad ni la buena educación siquiera… aunque creo que esto último es imprescindible para vivir con ellas. Me gustan las gentes que ven la vida con ojos distintos que los demás, que consideran las cosas de otro modo que la mayoría…”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada

“If we allow our differences to fracture our shared humanity, we will have subjugated ourselves to the lesser things that needlessly cast men as enemies.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“So, like diamonds that require an immense amount of pressure and energy to form one hundred miles under the surface of the earth, women are just harder to make.”
― Sharon Moalem, The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women

“Individuals may fluidly accept or change their gender, which may not align with the one assumed at any point throughout the life course. Yet when it comes to sex chromosomes and their immense effects on our lives, there’s no choice.”
― Sharon Moalem, The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women

“Although we belong to the same species and are more similar than we are different, there’s an important reason that females are more genetically endowed. Our very existence has depended on it for millions of years. Being the stronger sex, genetically speaking, is what allowed females to survive long enough to ensure the survival of our offspring -which in turn means the survival of us all.”
― Sharon Moalem, The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women

“When it comes to dealing with the trauma of life, genetic females have options. And genetic males don’t.”
― Sharon Moalem, The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women

“Here are some basic facts: Women live longer than me. Women have stronger immune systems. Women are less likely to suffer from a developmental disability, are more likely to see the world in a wider variety of colors, and overall are better at fighting cancer. Women are simply stronger than men at every stage of life.”
― Sharon Moalem, The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women

“Difference in world culture, tradition,
belief, race, and perspective is NATURAL, and should be used as a tool for learning instead of for fearing and destroying.”
― Deanna L. Lawlis

“Difference was never the problem in and of itself—and Um-Helatians still have differences with each other, of opinion and otherwise. Of course they do! They’re people. But what shocks the young citizens of Um-Helat is the realization that, once, those differences of opinion involved differences in respect. That once, value was ascribed to some people, and not others. That once, humanity was acknowledged for some, and not others.”
― N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?

“No one, I suppose, genuinely admits the real existence of another person. We may concede that the person is alive and that he thinks and feels as we do, but there will always be an unnamed element of difference, a materialized inequality.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Poor ugly creature, how gladly he would have lived even with the ducks had they only given him encouragement.”
― Hans Christian Anderson, The Ugly Duckling and Other Stories

“...I'm smiling because you and all nationalists always rant and rave about the fundamentalists and act as though you're so different. And yet you're just two sides of the same coin.”
― Marc-Uwe Kling, QualityLand

“Diversity is not the problem of humankind. The absence of love and unity is.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“I don't need to believe in what you believe, to love you. But if you believe in exclusive supremacy, I don't need to respect you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Ask two people to paint an apple, and you'll get two different-looking fruits. The core parts will probably be the same: the color, the shape, the stem. But the details, and the intention behind them—that's where the differences will be.
Ask two people to preserve a memory, and the same thing happens. That's because memory is a workable thing, kind of like art. You can mold it and shape it, build it up or beat it down. The important bits will stay the same, but the details are going to change depending on who is doing the remembering, or when, or why.
So how do you accurately and honestly preserve a memory?
Well, you can't. But you can try.
….
You can't preserve a memory, I think again as I walk away.
All you can do is hold each other tight while the moment lasts and then know when it's time to let go.”
― Britnee Meiser, All My Bests

“There are those who will never understand that differences, impurities, and disorder are integral elements of Dasein, from which the forces of change emerge. Thus, it is noted that any excessive tendency toward purification, ordering, and equalization produces regressions, often irreversible, wherever they occur.”
― Geverson Ampolini

“The difference between hope and no hope is the difference between light and no light. It is the difference between dreams and no dreams, ambition and no ambition, joy and no joy, peace and no peace, tomorrow and no tomorrow.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year

“Individuals can hold differing beliefs and still be friends. They can keep opposing opinions and still love each other dearly. Believe me, my family and I do not share all the same views or beliefs, yet I love them more than life.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year

“The line between this and that, you and her, us and them, the line is thin.”
― Percival Everett, James

“The young artist: there is no other kind of mind but my own.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“Political historian Barouth Regorab had likened the difference between a planetary government and the Galactic Senate to that between a rural community and a metropolis: “When a person depends upon their neighbor for assistance during the harvest—when strangers are few and familial ties bind the farmer to the freighter captain—the greatest danger is shunning or exile. Mollifying your peers becomes a matter of survival. You have an incentive to iron out differences, or if necessary to bury any radical beliefs that would put you at odds with your community.
“In a city of millions, however, a person may build a tailor-made community inside the larger organism. Anger your neighbor and you may move in with a friend. Become an outcast among your co-workers and you may take a job with a competitor. Diverse arts and philosophies may flourish without the flattening effect of more tight-knit communities, and differences may be celebrated. Yet a lack of common ties can also cause neighbors to see one another as rivals. Ideological opponents can be dismissed without need for engagement. And good people may slip through the cracks, lost in the chaos and written off as someone else’s problem.”
― Alexander Freed