Quotes About Pluralism

In a pluralistic society like ours, I think the ability to resist hate comes from cultivating a civil society that, on the one hand, nurtures the freedom of each group to pursue their faith and distinctive way of life, while, at the same time, fostering the ties that bind us together into a genuine broader community.

Throughout the years, the nation of Canada, as we are aware, became a land of immigration, a home to millions of people from different lands, ethnicities, cultures and religious beliefs. Every new comer that has settled in Canada in the last few hundred years and those who will settle in the future share one common name: "immigrants."

The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.

founding principles is e pluribus unum, or "unity in diversity

todo socialismo, al poner en marcha la planificación económica, al acabar con la competencia y la propiedad privada, establece automáticamente un mecanismo que a la corta o a la larga liquida el pluralismo político y las libertades, lo quieran o no los planificadores.

Además de sabio y modesto, fue un gran liberal. Esto, claro, nos enorgullece a quienes creemos que la doctrina liberal es el símbolo de la cultura democrática —la de la tolerancia, el pluralismo, los derechos humanos, la soberanía individual y la legalidad—, el buque insignia de la civilización.

El liberalismo representa la forma más radical de democracia.

Reconocer ese margen de error en nosotros y de acierto en los demás es creer que discutiendo, dialogando —coexistiendo— hay más posibilidades de identificar el error y la verdad que mediante la imposición de un pensamiento oficial único, al que todos deben suscribir so pena de castigo o descrédito.

Selon Hayek, tout socialisme, lorsqu'il active la planification économique et met fin à la concurrence et à la propriété privée, établit automatiquement un mécanisme qui, à plus ou moins brève échéance, liquide le pluralisme politique et les libertés, que les planificateurs le veuillent ou non.

That's what it means to be an American. To be free to love who and what you want, and to keep a lot in your heart at once.

Siempre habrá personas con un punto de vista distinto. En mi país tenemos demócratas y republicanos. Aquí vosotros tenéis nazis y antinazis. Eso es lo que hace que el mundo no se pare.

It's ok to think the way you think, just as long as you respect that it's not the only way.

The desire to control everything is giving way to pluralism, uniformity to diversity, centralization to localism, opacity to transparency, and immobilisme, or the resistance to change, to experimentation. The state is beginning to move in each case (though it could move a lot faster).

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be in silencing mankind

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seem good to themselves than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

Why then should tolerance, as far as the public sentiment is concerned, extend only to tastes and modes of life which extort acquiescence by the multitude of their adherents?

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

Christian signs and wonders are beyond rationality, but they serve a rational purpose: to authenticate the gospel. The gospel is opposed to the pluralistic lie that says all religious experience is equally valid. Signs and wonders validate Christ's sacrifice on the cross and His lordship over every area of our lives.

Only normal that man should no longer be interested in religion but in religions, for only through them will he be in a position to understand the many versions of his spiritual collapse.

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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

One of the quietest revolutions in Religion 101 follows a student's recognition that he or she has a worldview, a particular way of viewing reality that it is not the only way. A worldview is a wave, but not the entire ocean.

Peace on any other terms is a cruel delusion, a truth we need to bear in mind constantly as we seek to be faithful to God's word in our own, modern world of religious pluralism.

My philosophy - inclusive and pluralist Islam, dedicated to service to human beings from every faith - is antithetical to armed rebellion.