Quotes about "Diversity & Inclusion"

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. ”

It is not possible to debate the balance between privacy and security, including the rights and wrongs of intrusive powers, without also understanding the threats. ”

My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate at the frequency of the human spirit - the skill and insight of the writer lifting the parochial novel above the level of regional concern. Making it personal, national, and universal. ”

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart. ”

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. ”

I do not think it possible for anyone to get by in life without prejudice. However, the attempt to do so leads many people to suppose that, in order to decide any moral question, they have to find an indubitable first principle from which they can deduce an answer. ”

All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition. ”

The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature. ”

We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably not desirable. After all, our opponents are human. The proper use of an ad hominem argument, however, still requires evidence to back it up. ”

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. ”