“The world that we encounter in ordinary experience is one in which we are faced with choices between ends equally ultimate, and claims equally absolute, the realization of some of which must inevitably involve the sacrifice of others.”— Isaiah Berlin
“In today's society, which is characterized by a widespread pluralism, not only of values but also of anthropological conceptions, the question of the common good has become crucial.”— Angelo Scola
“Human ends are many, not all of them commensurable, and in perpetual rivalry with one another.”— Isaiah Berlin
“Pluralism is a situation in which people of different beliefs and cultures live together in a single society.”— Peter L. Berger
“True tolerance is not a total lack of conviction; it is the conviction that all people have an equal right to their own convictions.”— Charles Colson
“Pluralism is not relativism. It's the conviction that we can live together in peace even when we have profound disagreements.”— William D. Tammeus
“Pluralism... seems to me a truer and more humane ideal than the goals of those who seek in the great, disciplined, authoritarian structures the ideal of 'positive' self-mastery.”— Isaiah Berlin
“One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.'”— Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
“There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.”— Warren E. Burger
“I think that all religions are beautiful. I think they all have a piece of the truth.”— Sally Quinn