Terry Eagleton Quotes

I think we Chinese are just as capable, as diligent, as hardworking, as peace-loving, and as creative as people everywhere.

Hawaii is a special place because we have a very diverse population there, who are very respectful and tolerant of those who have differing opinions and different views.

From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

This is a country where Jews and Arabs speak without fear. Where people come from different cultures the world over. Where everyone becomes Brazilian rapidly.

In the multicultural West, our values are that we have no values: we accord all values equal value

Countries like France, Italy and the Netherlands may pay lip service to inclusion, but the ethos in those places is that immigrants can never really become French, Italian or Dutch, no matter what their passports say. The emphasis is on tolerance and respect, but there’s no real expectation that foreign nationals fit in.

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

My schools were quite diverse - those who serve their country come from every race and religion - and so the military schools I attended were a wonderful melting pot.

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.

Tolerance is respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world's cultures... It is not only a moral duty, it is also a political and legal requirement.

Diversity is what is destroying the country.

A constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state

Britishness has got to be the foundation of the multicultural society in this country. Anything less than this is farcical and treacherous.

This Diversity of origins requires an infinitely firm guide, an infinitely delicate touch to manage this heterogeneous society, whose complex composition becomes destroyed, divided and dissolved with the slightest alteration.

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

I don't want to get rid of the typical Dutch tolerance.

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

I am proof that, as Americans, we can embrace our differences.

Sometimes a politician gets up and talks about British values and what we think that means, and we can be knocked down quite harshly, but I don't think we should be. I think we should be able to talk about British values and about immigration without people saying, 'Oh, you're just being like a crazed other party.'

Canadians are so different and so lovely.

I think living in the U.S. it has given me an outsider's perspective on South Africa, and something that makes South Africans shine is our warm heartedness, and how we welcome and accept everyone, we are truly a nation of community, who embraces diversity.

Diversity, it is good. This country has been built by diversity. But diversity in sharing of values? For me, it's not good.

British people overwhelmingly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far right, which is the antithesis of the values this country represents: decency, tolerance, respect.