Individual Differences Quotations

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Socialism , whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler , Stalin , Mao , or Pol Pot, is all about disindividuation , a steady, relentless erasure of the individual differences among us, everything that makes us who we are. 'Everybody in, nobody out!' is the marching mantra of militant collectivized medicine, but it accurately describes all other aspects of collectivism , as well. No alternatives allowed, no choices, no individualism , no individuality , and ultimately, no individuation .

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

This principle of unity of the whole along with respect for individual differences is symbolized in the Mishkan, the Tabernacle.

They are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize themselves upon a rationalist and scientific paradigm.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences.