Terry Eagleton Quotes

Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed.’

The self-proclaimed Islamic State cannot tolerate diversity, which is why we must celebrate it.

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

In a pluralistic society, no group, no matter how numerous or powerful, has a right to prescribe a set of beliefs or a code of ethics for all.

We have taken the idea of tolerance so far that we have to put up with intolerance.

We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.

We must see the pluralism of the world, and not bind it by seeking common denominators.

Britain is an open and tolerant country, and I will fight with everything I have to keep it so.

The Netherlands has been too tolerant to intolerant people for too long.

Jews are no longer pressed and obliged to fight, hide or deny their Jewishness. What for? No one actually requires today to abandon the idiosyncrasy of some other culture or ethnic tradition. The great achievement of this last period is that we have been slowly, sometimes reluctantly, yet steadily, learning the art of living with differences.

Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.

You don't need to push your beliefs onto other people!

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.

One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation.

The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious and cultural freedom, to Jews, Parsis, several varieties of Christians, and Muslims.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.

We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.

The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.

I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.