Quotes About Pluralism

Diversity is not a skin thing, necessarily. Diversity is you have people around the table who have different backgrounds and different experiences and think differently.

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

Diversity is really a richness for mankind.

In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important.

We live in a multi-cultural world, so embracing diversity is important in every industry.

Diversity is very important for me.

Diversity should be forever; it should be a normal thing.

Diversity is not just about the fact that the pictures look better. I mean, they always do look better!

I believe in diversity in thought, in culture, and all sort of things.

I had always wanted to do a show of girls of color, a show that showcased diversity.

There is so much diversity in India in terms of religion, schools of thought, everything.

Is it safe and sane to only have one political and economic system by which everyone in the world can live? Or can we explore and share? God never made one of anything.

America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.

According to the Buddhist tradition," he began, "there is no sort of conversion or missionary work. It is not good to ask someone to follow a different faith. Yet, because there are so many different mental dispositions, one religion simply cannot serve, cannot satisfy all people.

Given the American example, it should always have been obvious that the sacred canopy claims are silly. In the United States, in the most fully pluralistic nation that probably has ever existed, religion is thriving. And it is absolutely clear that it is competition among religious groups, each needing to effectively recruit members or fade away, that has produced these results.

Toleration means being prepared to accept opinions that you intensely dislike. Likewise democracy means consenting to be governed by people whom you intensely dislike. This

Free speech is a sign of a strong first-person plural, which enables people who disagree over fundamental things to live together in a condition of mutual toleration.

By virtue of being an -ism, pluralism is a monism.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.

The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos.