Quotes About Pluralism

I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

Turkey is a diverse country... I think that democracy is the ideal system for a country with a social foundation such as this. My view is based on my belief that everyone should be able to comfortably live what they believe, and this is only possible in a truly democratic environment. I am insistent in my views and I strongly believe in what I say.

Personally, many of my views are not in the mainstream as I am a centrist-libertarian.

In a democratic party, where internal democracy is alive, there are bound to be different views.

Even the state TV channels are not monolithic in their pro-government line, and the views they express are quite pluralistic.

I'm an extreme libertarian, but I realize we're in a democracy, and in a democracy, people can have views of all stripes, and there's no reason to argue about it.

The Democratic Party is a house of many mansions. It is a body which is extremely important in representing all kinds of people in all parts of the country who have very broad and very different views.

If pluralism and academic freedom are to be used to defend liberal speakers and ideas, they ought to be equally valid for conservative views.

Muslim views are not a monolithic blob.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Up is infinite. Down is infinite. Pantheism, dualism, pluralism!

I believe in the dignity of every person. I believe that while we are all free to practice our religion, and to hold whatever religious beliefs we choose.

I don't think, in a country, you can have people thinking and feeling exactly the same.

I don't believe the majority always knows what's best for everyone.

Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.

Not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

Diversity is the key to life, without it we would be a mindless drone of a single colored spectrum.

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

Aren't Hindu, Sikh, Mussalman, Isai, Parsee like the spices in Panjab's masala box? Assorted?

Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs were not separate nations - they were Panjabis who had lived for years on the land, enjoying each other's festivities or ignoring them, but co-existing nonetheless.