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Quotes About Tolerance

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.
~ Zachary Quinto
There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.
~ Bill Murray
Treat everyone with kindness, dignity, compassion and respect, irrespective of whether you think they understand or not.
~ Martin Pistorius
If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.
~ Thomas Sowell
If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
~ Kofi Annan
Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.
~ Karen Armstrong
Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.
~ Stephen Prothero
Nonviolence is absolute respect for each human being.
~ Adolfo Perez Esquivel
When I meet a new person, I don't see race or religion. I look deeper. We must learn to satisfy our conflicts peacefully and to respect one another.
~ Muhammad Ali
It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.
~ Clive Owen
I'm not anti-Jew. Jews are respected by everyone, like all human beings, and I respect them very much.
~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but equally respect those who can achieve good morality without religion.
~ Alan Dershowitz
A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Be tolerant. Behold the unity of all faiths, cults, creeds and religions. Respect the views, opinions and sentiments of all.
~ Sivananda
Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family.
~ Gautama Buddha
Part of building a new nation means building a spirit of tolerance, love and respect amongst the people of this country.
~ Nelson Mandela
We need multiculturalism, respect for diversity, tolerance, respect for diverse faiths.
~ Manmohan Singh
We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own
~ Barack Obama
At home we ate fish every Friday, as Catholics were then supposed to do. Being Jewish, I compromised. I wore a hat when I ate fish, out of respect for my own religion and the fish's family.
~ George Burns
All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do.
~ Johann Hari
You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
~ Wellington Mara
I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them. It's my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.
~ Quentin Tarantino
True compassion is about not bruising the other person's self-respect.
~ Naoki Higashida
No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.
~ Steig Larsson