Quotes About Pluralism

Let no one challenge India's secularism.

India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.

When Saddam Hussein was overthrown, Iraqis resolved never to allow one man, one political party, or one segment of society to dominate our diverse nation. Now we have the opportunity to build an Iraq worthy of what we are: a pluralist people, steeped in history, striving to build one nation in peace and mutual respect.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

L'homme gagne sa liberté non pas en travaillant, mais davantage en créant, et surtout en se confrontant à la pluralité, en ayant le courage de dire ce qu'il pense quelles que soient ses chances d'être véritablement entendu, comme le veut la fragilité des affaires humaines.

Voor een organisatie die functioneert volgens de principes 'wie niet ingesloten is, is uitgesloten' en 'wie niet met mij is, is tegen mij' verliest de wereld in haar geheel elke nuance, elke differentiatie en elke pluraliteit.

who had easy answers, be they on the right or the left, were always wrong. The world is complex. It is never one-size-fits-all.

The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong; one kind of access that was right and everything else was inferior. Then nobody touched language for two generations. When it gradually came back in, we didn't want to go back to what we did in the 1950s. There's a new kind of ethos now.

My company is called East-West Theatre precisely because Sarajevo is this city on the border between East and West, the place where the Great Mosque and the Catholic Cathedral and the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral stand almost within touching distance of each other.

To me, America is a symbol of all different views, different types of people coming together.

Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

wonder how a country so divided can stand?" "We will only stand if we learn to accept and even embrace each other's differences rather than allow them to divide us. It is a childish fantasy to expect everyone to agree all the time, but how much better to live in a country where one is free to think differently from one's neighbors, and even one's government, without risking life and limb.

Both the ethnocentric and anti-ethnocentric extremes arise from the same root, the tendency to make absolute the differences among cultures and traditions.

The fundamental character of our faith means an extensive diversity is required not only within local community, but between communities.

For me to say that all novels in English written by Indians are all alike would be a bit like saying that all the cows in India look the same and have identical horns.

And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.

Por otra parte, tratar lo diverso de las culturas en términos de diferencia conducirá a querer aislarlas y a fijarlas en su identidad.

I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.

We should welcome all men of every shade of religious opinion, as among the best means of checking the arrogance and intolerance which are the almost inevitable concomitants of general conformity. Liberty always flourishes best amid the clash and competition of rival religious creeds.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

The great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that we all make to the common good.