Cherish Quote by Rebecca West

Humanity can be pretty stinky.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“Find a reason to turn your nose up at a culture, to denigrate a people because they are different, and it's not such a…

— Ronald H. Balson

“Our battle is being waged against the puerile disgustingness of the Disgusting Dimension and trying to furnish it with joy, refinement and civility. Its…

— Jill Thrussell

“We're fighting the puerile disgustingness of the Disgusting Dimension and trying to furnish it with joy, refinement and civility. Its an ongoing battle for…

— Jill Thrussell

“Communication between people of different nationalities enriches human society and makes it more colourful.. Imagine our Russian intellectuals, the kind, merry, perceptive old women…

— Vasily Grossman

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

— Emile Zola

In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“The hard part is dealing with other people’s reactions. We live in a society that prides itself on diversity, yet has ironically narrow definitions…

— Sarah A. Chrisman

Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“When race and ethnicity become commodified as resources for pleasure, the culture of specific groups, as well as the bodies of individuals, can be…

— Juliet Schor

I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down…

— Lewis Nkosi

“Part the curtains of society’s racial, ethnic, religious, national, and cultural conflicts, and you find the human ego turning the knobs and pulling the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson