Quotes About Tolerance

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.

Imagine ... Imagine no religion.

The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.

I wasn't raised with a specific religion. I wasn't raised to judge people in any way.

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.

Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits.

We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God.

Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.

There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.

We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.

They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.