Quotes About Pluralism

The point of politics is to keep multiple and irreducible goods in play, rather than yielding to some dream, Nazi or otherwise, of totality. —

Il problema è che fino a quando penseremo di avere il monopolio del bene, fino a che parleremo della nostra come LA civiltà, ignorando le altre, non saremo sulla buona strada.

Il problema è che fino a quando penseremo di avere il monopolio del <>, fino a che parleremo della nostra come LA civiltà, ignorando le altre, non saremo sulla buona strada".

I've gone from a place where I was told there was one way and only one way, to being more in a place where I don't think anyone has the right to say what they believe is more important or more significant.

I need to point out that African-Americans are not a monolith and do not operate in groupthink.

Forget you were born a Hindu, and don't be an American. Take the best of them both

God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.

Diversity, not uniformity, is what works.

What I said in Ishmael stands: There is no One Right Way to live. What we find among Leaver peoples is that each has a way that works well for them. We may not like one particular way, we may think it atrocious and cruel, but it's their way, not ours, and the most murderous culture in human history is hardly in a position to set itself up as the moral policeman of the world.

Given the somewhat dubious and sectarian reputation of madrasas today, it is worth remembering that many of the most brilliant Hindu thinkers, including, for example, the great reformer Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833), were the products of madrasa educations.

It never occurs to most of us .. that the question 'what is the truth' is no real question (being irrelative to all conditions) and that the whole notion of the truth is an abstraction from the fact of truths in the plural, a mere useful summarizing phrase like the Latin language or the Law.

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent

Universality and particularity do not contradict one another but require one another. How

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in America is as valid and as important a perspective on the religious experience of America as evangelical Christianity or Judaism - whatever it may be.

My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other.

Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.

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.

In addition to being antielitist, populists are always antipluralist. Populists claim that they, and they alone, represent the people.

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

I do think a healthy opposition is very necessary in a democracy.

I am a secular man who believes in inclusion, so balance comes across organically.

Everyone's opinions have to be respected. The coach has his, we have ours, the media have theirs.