“Truly man is a marvellously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgement on him.”

“The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of Government.”

James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)

“Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.”

Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French

“Uniformity is the death of life. Wherever there is life, there is diversity.”

Kurien Kunnumpuram (1931–2018) Indian theologian

“He that thinks diversion may not lie in hard and painful labour, forgets the early rising, hard riding, heat, cold and hunger of huntsmen, which is yet known to be the constant recreation of men of the greatest condition.”

John Locke book Some Thoughts Concerning Education

“You truly are an extraordinary man, Mr Sandeen. Nobody I know counts weeks. That is absolutely marvelous.”

Marjaneh Bakhtiari (1980)

“An unlimited capacity of a human for self-improvement makes him an object of constant respect and admiration.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

“The purpose of those who argue for cultural diversity is to impose ideological uniformity.”

Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer

“We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

“Commonly we say a judgement falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.”

John Selden (1584–1654) English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law