Charles Evans Hughes Quotes

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

That's the beauty of democracy — you believe what you believe, I believe what I believe, and as long as we're not hurting each other, that's fine. Placing a value judgment on a person's beliefs has no place in a democracy.

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

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

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

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.

America has believed that in differentiation, not uniformity, lies the path of progress.

Freedom is found in pluralism.

If we try and make out of the American people a people of one mind and one mold, we're through.

... the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

To assure our freedom we must allow others the same freedom, even if occasionally it produces conduct by them which we would hold to be sinful. We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might someday force theirs on us.

I don't think, in a country, you can have people thinking and feeling exactly the same.

Everybody has to choose his or her own way to climb a mountain. I don't give an opinion. But there needs to be enough room for others.

True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.

We can all live under the Constitution and all express ourself in radically different ways and not control each other.

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

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

I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom.

All my life I've been looking for diversity.

I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

We're not all supposed to think alike.

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.