Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes

The idea of multiculturalism, that every culture is equal - that's not objectively true.

We are becoming a society where multiculture means no public culture.

It was my idea for high culture and popular culture to be treated equally.

When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model.

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

Multiculturalism leads to parallel societies and therefore remains a 'life lie.'

People are equal, cultures are not.

Saying... 'Come as you are, keep living like you do, keep your culture, and we will add all that together,' doesn't work.

We should wake up and tell ourselves: You're not a xenophobe, you're not a racist, you're not a crazy guy if you say, 'My culture is better than yours.'

I just want to say that the multiculturalism - and especially the cultural relativism which is even worse than multiculturalism, the concept that all cultures are equal - is the worst recipe for any society.

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

I'm anti-globalisation. There is nothing more enriching than to go out into the world and meet people different to you. We must fight the spread of a singular way of thinking and preserve cultural differences.

It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day.

Modern man is prompt to prevent cruelty to animals, and sometimes even to humans, but no counterpart of the Humane Society or the Sierra Club exists to prevent cruelty to entire cultures.

A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, to dialogue and, in the final analysis, to possibly accept the other's culture without compromising its own.

I remember always going to the train station where I grew up, and on the wall was written, 'The real wealth of a nation is diversity of cultures.' Where I grew up, that's what I saw, and that's what I believe in as well - and I still believe it.

In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse.

Multiculturalism is based on the lie that all cultures are morally equal.

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where other ethnicities, less cynical and more positive, will play a big role in its future.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

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