Quotes About Pluralism

If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other's throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.

if you know whether a man is a decided monist or a decided pluralist, you perhaps know more about the rest of his opinions than if you give him any other name ending in IST. To believe in the one or in the many, that is the classification with the maximum number of consequences.

Those who champion democracy, but make a fetish of never accepting anything they don't agree with -- what advantage do they see in democracy?

Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.

Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.

Popper says that the best way out of the problem of having unconscious points of view is to state clearly one's view and to recognize that there are also other points of view.

Old attitudes die hard, of course, and there will still be those who mourn the passing of the days when a single accent ruled the British airwaves. But they are a steadily shrinking minority.

God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?

If all are created in the divine image, then our images of God must be fluid and multifarious.

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

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

You want diversity in any intellectual organization. I mean, that's how good ideas arise.

In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.

The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

There is no history, only histories.

The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.

But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.

India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.

What makes the world such a wonderful place is the diversity. I have always strived to fill my home, my office and my hotels with the most diverse crowds possible.

What we pluralists have to do is to say to the people standing on the faith line, particularly the young ones, no, pluralism is the wish of the creator. It is the greatest opportunity for humanity.

One of the greatest problems of humanity is how to live in a multi religious society without losing one's religion - without relativising everything.