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Quotes About Diversity

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.
~ Jesse Ventura
Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.
~ Charles Colson
Before our race, nationality, or religion, we are all human beings. Let's celebrate our differences and not fight over them.
~ Rosie Fellner
Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.
~ Bruce Feiler
I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
~ Ian Mcewan
I think that there are many different ways of getting and staying sober. Like religion, I just don't think that one way is the only way.
~ Kristen Johnston
In pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!
~ Dalai Lama
I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.
~ Edward Hirsch
I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God
~ Amber Tamblyn
I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.
~ Barack Obama
Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.
~ Alan Dershowitz
I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.
~ Susan Jacoby
ISIS goes after any group that deviates from its extreme ideology, dissident Muslims, for example, or the Yazidis who practice an ancient religion distinct from both Islam and Christianity.
~ Tom Gjelten
My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.
~ Thomas Jefferson
There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it.
~ Tony Blair
The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.
~ David O. Russell
Rather than looking for another religion, look for the values that are in every religion.
~ Deepak Chopra
There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.
~ Tony Blair
People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.
~ Desmond Tutu
Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.
~ Don McLean
Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.
~ William Jennings Bryan