Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.
Interpretation
Diversity among humans necessitates tolerance for coexistence and survival.
The quote by Rene Dubos emphasizes the importance of human diversity and how it compels us to practice tolerance. In a world where individuals come from various backgrounds, beliefs, and cultures, embracing and respecting this diversity becomes essential not just as a moral virtue, but as a fundamental requirement for our collective survival and harmonious existence.
In practice
Use this quote in a speech about social harmony at a community event.
The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind.
There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.
Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.
Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.
Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.
As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect.
If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class.
No man is so poor as that. As well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing worth giving to the sea, because they are not rivers. Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.
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