Quotes About Pluralism

The freedom to be able to offer education, human services, and health care in accordance with our own identity as a church should not be denied us simply because there may be the perception of a political majority who favors a new understanding of the American tradition of pluralism.

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

We are part of an inspiringly colorful mosaic of cultures and traditions. I will nurture this pluralism.

We are a pluralistic Nation composed of very distinct groups, each bound together by ethnicity, race, or religion - each group proud of its identity and committed to its faith and traditions. Yet despite these differences, we can be bound together into a broader community.

Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest.

There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.

We believe in Sarva Pantha Sambhav. We believe 'the truth is one, there are ways to reach it.

The page we have in our colouring book may appear to have a similar outline but we all vary in the way we fill in the space. Diversity keeps us interesting.Celebrate your differences.

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.

Hindu is a geographical identity, or at the most a cultural one - not a religion. There is no set of beliefs that everyone has to adhere to.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

Intolerance is alien to Hinduism.

Islam and democracy can function together.

We want a country which is not isolated and where democracy rules.

The idea that the State of Israel could be democracy only for its Jewish citizens is unconscionable, and we must find a way to address this.

Today, there are those who hallucinate that a democratic and Jewish state is only democratic for the Jews.

The problem, however, was not with the idea of national identity itself; the problem was the narrow, ethnically based, intolerant, aggressive, and deeply illiberal form that national identity took.

The psychological dislocation engendered by the transition from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft laid the basis for an ideology of nationalism based on an intense nostalgia for an imagined past of strong community in which the divisions and confusions of a pluralist modern society did not exist.

The remedy is to define larger and more integrative national identities that take account of the de facto diversity of existing liberal democratic societies.

Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

Though I was born a Muslim, my father's job as a medical officer meant that we travelled a great deal and I went to Hindi schools, Muslim schools, public schools, C of E and Catholic schools.

The overwhelming majority of Afghans are not tribal, and they're not Pashtun.