top of page
"There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Diversity quotes

"Plenty are the tastes and plenty are the paths."

"I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow."

"Any regime or any government which motivates its own people to be different than one another is a good regime, is a good government! Encourage people to think differently, to act differently, and to believe in different things, otherwise you create just a herd of animals!"

"Those who have darkness in their minds turn their bodies into darkness as well! Life is colourful; be like a rainbow, use every colour! Don't get stuck in one colour, be colourful! Black, red, yellow, green, let all the colours be your colours! Those who have colourful minds will have colourful bodies as well!"

"The complex mix of unique people rising from different identities, beliefs, education, gender, upbringing, point of views and ethnicity have unequal sense in their impact in other's status, opportunities, resources, talents, skills and productivity. It is very good to live with cultural humility that complements competency and proficiency."

"Appreciation for cultural diversity is essential for our co-existence."

"Some people think everyone should be the same as them:Look, dress, sound and act just like them."
Explore more quotes by Charles Horton Cooley

"Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble."

"Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise."

"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles."

"Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction."

"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."

"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."

"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."
bottom of page