Quotes About Tolerance

The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together.

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

There's a need to create a space for different kind of films. Let all kind of films co-exist peacefully.

I want a country where you can express different ideas peacefully and not be bothered and arrested unfairly for it. I want a country where you shouldn't be scared to say that you are an atheist, for example.

I live my life in a very peculiar way where nothing gets my goat as such. I don't look at things in a manner where they offend me. I look at things in a manner where they amuse me.

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.

If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.

Lots of people say to me, 'I completely hate Busted'. That's completely cool with me. I understand why.

A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.

I accept what people say. I don't have time to dissect it.

There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.

In life and in politics, it's helpful to try to perceive the other person through the most generous lens.

It's maybe a better thought to change the perception of an accent than to avoid it all together.

You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.

Anything that opens up people's perceptions a bit is good.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong.

For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.

I want to change how people perceived me when I came over here, change how the people perceive South-East Asians or Middle Eastern or Muslim or Hindu or whatever their identity is. I want them to just let that go and treat the performer as a performer.

LaGuardia High School is a place of acceptance. You have every type of kid there, performing. The outcast girl would not have been made fun of in my high school.

I don't have problems with nobody, period.

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

BJP's ideology doesn't permit discrimination on the basis of caste, sect, or religion. Everyone born in India is equal for us.