Quotes About Diversity

Tolerance is forced on people in London.

Business is not a spiritual matter, and my business decisions are not based on spiritual considerations. When I founded the Essence of Life, a project aimed at teaching tolerance and respectful dialogue, the person appointed to head it was Irit Atzmon, a former colonel in the army. Can anything be more down-to-earth than that?

Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.

The American experiment has always depended on a measure of tolerance and good sense.

We allow each other so little enjoyment or even tolerance for our individualities, our uniquenesses, and yet to me, that's what it's all about.

Tolerance of true diversity on university campuses - diversity of opinion and belief - has been eroding for decades while alumni and trustees looked the other way.

I grew up in New York City, a town with different races, religions, and peoples. It breeds tolerance.

The fabric of our Constitution and our civilisational culture is based on tolerance.

Tolerance actually does exist on Broadway.

Tolerance is important, especially in a democracy. The ability to have honest conversations, even if you come from a different place, a difference perspective, is fundamentally important.

The thematic core of 'X-Men' is tolerance. It's that for those of us who are different in any way - in a big way, whether it's you're a minority, you're a woman, you're a Muslim, you are suppressed or marginalized - it can go the whole spectrum - but even if you are shy or you feel like an outsider - and X-Men are outsiders.

So why don't all religions get together and go to war with atheists? Because we all want the same thing: respect and tolerance and not to be forced to do anything we don't want to.

I always say that tolerance doesn't depend on a country, because there is hate everywhere.

When I first set out to make movies, that's what I thought I was going to do - make movies that mean something. And each movie had its own message, some stronger than others. Even 'X-Men' has its own message of tolerance.

The Right, much more than the Left, believes in the notion of live and let live, and that is the true definition of tolerance.

My dad taught not only tolerance but appreciation for every human being.

You can't reduce a country to its tolerance or intolerance.

Tolerance exists.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant, and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive, and have an appetite for work. For equality to come about, it is necessary that these strikingly contrasting races adjust to each other.

I'm actually a little bit more tolerant than I thought I was. I've got kids, so I do have a lot of faces.

One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.