Differences Quotes

“If you are wondering why other worlds seem so brimful of magic compared to your own dreary Earth, consider how magical this world seems from another perspective. To a world of sea people, your ability to breathe air is stunning; to a world of spear throwers, your machines are demons harnessed to work tirelessly in your service; to a world of glaciers and clouds, summer itself is a miracle.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“The world is filled with all kinds. Can't go around ignoring the suffering of others simply because someone looks different from what I've seen before.”
― G.A. Aiken, The Blacksmith Queen

“To fight is easy, but to create trust where there is none, that's the real challenge.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“It's the first thing people notice,' she says despondently. 'Difference. As if it's a crime.”
― Pajtim Statovci, Tiranan sydän

“If you argue the world is flat and I argue that the world is round, in the end have I hurt you? We just disagree.”
― William Crosgrove, Celtic Shadow

“Why were humans so good at not seeing anyone who didn't fit into their vision of how things should be?”
― Jackie French, If Blood Should Stain the Wattle

“Well, them cloths are a lot like folks. Ain't much difference at all. Some of us is more spiffed up than others, some stiffer, and still, some softer. There's the colorful and dull, ugly and pretty, old new 'guns. But in the end we's all fabric, cut from His cloth. Fabric, and just that.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

“Turn your obstacles to your advantage. If you can find a plus out of a negative, then it cannot weigh you down. I like to think I have a superpower called dyslexia. I am creative, intuitive, and empathetic. I am great with problem-solving, and I can think outside the box. Just the other day, I was helping my daughter with a crossword puzzle, and she said, “Dad, how do you find the answers so fast? And I said, “I have dyslexia, and it helps me see things differently. To which she replied, “Aw, I want that.” If we can see our differences or unique qualities as gifts, we can bypass the stigmas that come with them and impress upon ourselves and society we can do anything any other person can do, just differently, and sometimes better.”
― Lorin Morgan-Richards

“The thing about looking for differences is that once you look, you find them.”
― Evelynn Hammonds

“I have come to think it is a fault in us, to credit what we give in such a case, and never to consider what must be given up in order to receive it. - Bethia Mayfield”
― Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing

“The only way we will love our neighbor as ourselves is by getting to know our neighbors, even in the midst of our differences.”
― Eric Overby

“...the illusion of differences is maintained out of fear that seeing similarity will create an obligation to accord respect and perhaps even equality.”
― Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals

“My family is accepting of all the differences in the world. ... And I STILL hadn't told them when my fingers started getting hot, or when I'd accidentally set fire to my sheets in the night. Some things are a step too far. They're terrifying and personal, and telling people about them would make them real. Worse, telling people about them might make those people look at you differently. It might make them change the way they treat you.”
― Seanan McGuire, Magic for Nothing

“People are stupid at times, but guess what - so are you - so am I. So, let's accept each other's stupidity and fill in for each other's weaknesses - let's stand next to each other and become the strength to each other.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac

“it's hard to be a faithful wife, in short,
To certain husbands of a certain sort”
― Molière, Tartuffe

“The enemy is not difference, the enemy is fear of difference. We must celebrate differences so they can bring us together. We must ALL stand together as one, ALL equal, demanding equal justice for ALL!”
― Staness Jonekos

“It can be difficult to find common ground when all some wish to discuss is our differences.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Two Englishmen meeting for the first time instantly seek the differences between them, the doubts and reservations, the message in the other’s accent.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Operation Jihadi Bride: My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS - The Incredible True Story

“Intolerance in the 23rd century? Improbable! If man survives that long, 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. It's a manifestation of the greatness that god, or whatever it is, gave us. This infinite variation and delight, this is part of the optimism we built into Star Trek. ~Gene Roddenberry”
― Stephen E. Whitfield, The Making of Star Trek

“We never
want the same.”
― Marianne Boruch, Cadaver, Speak

“Clarity una vadi tho entha differences una undachu kani, clarity leni vadi tho enta match ayna undalemu” ”
― Ramana Pemmaraju

“Embrace your differences.”
― Steven Magee

“We humans shall always have reasons to fight with each other, but above them all there is even higher reason that binds us together and that is the reason of humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“O My Dear Earthling (A Sonnet)

O My Dear Earthling open your doors,
For the supreme festival has arrived.
The whole wide nature is rejoicing in love,
Step outside cultures and celebrate life.
The sky is engulfed with billions of smiles,
Smiles that know not pettiness of society.
Open your soul O Mighty Earthling,
The wind of amity is here bearing unity.
No more bounds on love, race and religion,
Prejudice suits not a species of sapiens.
Value we must character over conformity,
It’s time we throw away all our allegiance.
On guard we stand against differentiation,
Hear all peddlers of hate – we are all one.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Revolution Indomable

“I breathed in variations in wood smoke, smelled clams both fresh and dry, the scent of freshly gathered apples. Mud from my shoes and the smell of autumn leaves in the rain. The differences had been there all along, but I had been distracted, waiting for an entirely new world- a shift into an unknown realm. What was on those papers was far more mysterious.
Memory.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“Great leaders understand that as relationships grow, differences diminish.”
― Eldon Henson, Achieving your best day yet!: A more fulfilling career... a more impactful life

“Literature and gossip are closely related. People who are curious and imaginative long to know 'what it's like for other people.' This longing can be satisfied in its basest, most banal form through gossip, just as it can attain a more refined and complex gratification in art. Both gossip and literature, each in its own way, are capable of offering a partial antidote to fanaticism, because they both relish the fascinating differences between people.”
― Amos Oz, שלום לקנאים

“Differences
in morbidity, mortality, and nutritional status linked to differences in
socioeconomic status, caste, class, gender, and geography persist in India.”
― Bibek Debroy, Getting India Back on Track: An Action Agenda for Reform

“The smell of oak and barbecue permeate the air around the small house. Delfina uses oak for her barbecue and Mom (and me) always used hickory. People said that you could tell where North Star was solely based on the competing smells that met in the air just above the town. That little weevil of an idea pops back up. Our plot of land. It's still there.”
― Liza Palmer, Nowhere But Home

“Differences don't make a society fall, indifference does.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace