Quotes about Diversity

Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

Contrary to the assumptions of Western moral traditions, human beings are (1) not free in their actions but governed by necessity; (2) not transparent to themselves and others in their motivations, but opaque; (3) not similar to each other and therefore subject to the same moral code, but each different.

One constant is that, to achieve all the purposes of reading, the desideratum must be the ability to read different things at different—appropriate—speeds, not everything at the greatest possible speed. As Pascal observed three hundred years ago, "When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing." Since

Every form has its merits. And I like to work in a lot of different forms.

Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

If Microsoft had never existed... The industry would probably be very fragmented.

I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

We are all Federalists, and we are all Republicans.