Pluralist Quotes

#1. to buy us.' 'The candidate wants to get here fast,' Mike was saying. 'Too fast,

Daniel Pembrey

#2. political life came to be dominated by a pattern of interest-group politics that the era's political scientists came to call "pluralist," a form of democracy marked more by competition among organizations and lobbyists than by a sense of the public interest.

Ira Katznelson

#3. I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

Alan Parker

#4. Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.

Amy Neftzger

#5. All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

Peter Drucker

#6. I am not an easel-kisser.

Martin Kippenberger

#7. And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.

Thomas Keneally

#8. Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.

Tariq Ramadan

#9. Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.

David Foster Wallace

#10. If someone is a straight jazzhead, or a straight metalhead, or straight classical, they have a very narrow range of what they allow into their lives. But the people who listen to what we put out into the world have to be open-minded. Because we're so pluralist.

John Zorn

#11. While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

Andrew Motion

#12. The one truth he knew above all else was that faith had no power unless it was chosen freely.

Ryk Brown

#13. In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very hard to write accurate histories. Also, there's a much greater opportunity for suppression of information before it can even be archived.

Antony Beevor

#14. Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind ... That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.

Aga Khan IV

#15. Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world's peoples.

Aga Khan IV

#16. Depending on which side you're on, maybe the police are too objective and need to be a bit more subjective.

John Ridley

#17. We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.

Umberto Eco

#18. Everyone gets forgotten because of Alzheimer's, ignored because of ignorance about oneself and replaced because of trying to stay in the same place.

Amit Abraham

#19. It was the same principle as cleaning a really messy room. You don't think about everything you have to do. You focus on one thing and get it done, then more onto the next.

Jim Butcher

#20. The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.

Elmer Eric Schattschneider