Louis Nizer Quotes

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

What's the difference? One guy's the same as the other.

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

Equal doesn't mean identical.

Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.

Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is the same - and they are afraid if they are not the same, they are not equal.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

I look like everyone.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

It's perfect to be the same as everyone else.

Each one is different; each season is different.

How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?

Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.

Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

There was a huge difference between dislike and disregard.

We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.

Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.

I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

If everything is the same, nothing is special.