Quotes About Pluralism

One of the features of a democracy is the disentanglement of the sacred from the secular because in religiously pluralistic countries, no one can legitimately claim special status by faith membership.

Diversity can't be a fashionable thing: it should be here to stay.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.

In the world that lies ahead, religious pluralism is going to penetrate all cultures. How we live together with different points of view is going to become more and more important. I don't know whether we can make progress in such a project without a contemplative practice that alerts us to our own biases, prejudices, and self-centered programs for happiness, especially when they trample on other people's rights and needs.

What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style.

We have numerous mandirs, gurudwaras, and mosques in my Congressional district and all across the U.S.

Lo que mueve a los mundos es la interacción de las diferencias, sus atracciones y rechazos. La vida es pluralidad. La muerte es uniformidad. Al reprimir diferencias y peculiaridades, al eliminar diferentes culturas y civilizaciones el progreso debilita la vida y fortalece la muerte, nos empobrece y mutila. Cada visión del mundo que se extingue, cada cultura que desaparece, disminuye la posibilidad de vida.

Decoloniality promotes pluriversality as a universal option—which means that what "should be" universal is in fact pluriversal, and not a single totality.

Obviously, Western Christian Europeans had the right to build their own image of the world, like anybody else who had done so before them. But it was an aberration to pretend and act accordingly as if their specific image of the world and their own sense of totality was the same for any- and everybody else on the planet.

polygamists. But I'm not the one who put them

liberalism can't and shouldn't claim complete cultural neutrality. Liberalism is also a fighting creed.

Columnist Joseph Sobran writes, "The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral about it is to avoid all mention of it. By this sort of logic, nudism is the best compromise among different styles of dress. The secularist version of 'pluralism' amounts to theological nudism."35

In a pluralistic society it is not only wrong but unwise for Christians to shake their Bibles and arrogantly assert that "God says . . ." That is the quickest way for Christians, a distinct minority in civil affairs, to lose their case altogether.

I maintain that (as usual) many sides exist to this issue rather than only two. Two-sided issues (creationism vs darwinism, "choice" vs "pro-life," etc.) are all without exception delusions , spectacular lies.

We Yankees don't like anybody, including each other, but we tolerate everybody." Even

The U.S. is such an unusual place in the world because you can believe anything you want.

We are Christian and Jewish and Muslim and Hindu and none of the above. We are gay and straight. We are black, brown, white, and innumerable combinations. We are young and old, female and male, with and without disabilities, urban and rural, and liberal and conservative. Every one of us is an equal American.

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

Without third parties, all forward movement stops. They're essential. They're not just OK. They are absolutely essential.

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline matters too; we cannot simply treat life as a psychedelic trip through a series of novel sensations.

This is pluralism: not a synonym of relativism, but rather an antonym. Pluralism accepts the moral reality of different kinds of truth, but rejects the idea that they can all be placed on a single scale, measured by a single value.