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

“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

“I learned that identical emotions do not spring up in the hearts of all men simultaneously, by a pre-established order. Later on I discovered that, whenever I had read for too long and was in a mood for conversation, the friend to whom I would be burning to say something would at that moment have finished indulging himself in the delights of conversation, and wanted nothing now but to be left to read undisturbed.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“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

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

“Human beings are so much more than mere color. If we cannot see beyond superficial differences we do not perceive our endless similarities.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“...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

“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

“Wisdom is not judging others by superficial differences but noting the almost endless similarity that all humans share.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“In a republic, to be successful we must learn to combine intensity of conviction with a broad tolerance of difference of conviction. Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, The Duties of American Citizenship

“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

“We enrich ourselves by learning from those who are most different to us.”
― Margo Vader, Take A Little Soul Time

“It’s a life that he clung on to and one that she was eager to let go.”
― Krystalle Bianca, Perfectly Fractured (The Imperfect, #1).

“Others look different to us, because we are distant, the moment we get close to them, we'd discover that the differences are either inconsequential or an illusion altogether.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Servitude is Sanctitude