Plurality Quotes

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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny. — Blaise Pascal
Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity. — William of Ockham
In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the… — Aristotle
It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity.… — Terry Eagleton
What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces. — David Puttnam
Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences,… — Gavyn Davies
I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead… — Taslima Nasrin
To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to… — Ma Jian
I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want… — Caitlin Moran
To believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian faith at once little… — Thomas Paine
Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an… — Gary Snyder
Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding… — Flann O'Brien
Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity… — Bell Hooks
Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors --… — Hannah Arendt
The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibilityâ”€â”€of being unable to undo what one has doneâ”€â”€is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for… — Hannah Arendt
Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming… — G I Gurdjieff
But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is… — Aristotle
Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism - the truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths are not always… — John Ridley
Plurality should not be posited without necessity. — William of Occam
Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as… — Paul Hawken

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