Mark Steyn Quotes

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.

To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.

What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

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

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.

I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.

There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.

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.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.

Above all there is our fixed joint determination to build a strong and united Fiji, rich in diversity and pampered with tolerance, goodwill and understanding.

We should accept diversity and pluralism and learn to live in them, and learn how to grow in them, without losing our identity and compromising ourselves

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.

There’s no reason to be upset. This was a display of pluralism. We Mexicans need to get used to new times.

Diversity is … the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other habits of mind, have as much integrity of being, as much claim upon the world, as you do.

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

Discrimination still exists. Some people feel that their own beliefs are being threatened. Some are unhappy about unfamiliar cultures. They all need to be reassured that there is so much to be gained by reaching out to others; that diversity is indeed a strength and not a threat.

Canada is the only country in the West that hasn't given in to the rhetoric of fear. The dominant rhetoric is a line of inclusion.

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

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

We believe in equal respect for all faiths.

My country is nothing if not diverse.

I believe in diversity in thought, in culture, and all sort of things.