Quotes About Tolerance

If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

Chits knew no ideology.

Love passionately bears with others for as long as patience is needed; love doesn't demand others to be like itself, but is so focused on the needs of others that it bends over backwards to become what others need it to be; love is not ambitious, self-centered, or so consumed with itself that it never thinks of the needs or desires that others possess.…

Have we forgotten that what we tolerate, we empower? Silence is communication! Silence communicates agreement and grants permission. We enable deception when we refuse to confront the lies. Silence is not an option!

If you don't like a place, maybe you don't know enough about it... Give a culture the benefit of your open mind.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Noticing the twinkling lights strung up in honor of the holy month of Ramadan, I thought "Charming- they've draped Christmas lights between their minarets." But a Turk might come into my house and say, "Charming- he's draped Ramadan lights on his Christmas tree.

Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

Never confuse your right to say what you believe with a right to never be disagreed with and ridiculed for saying what you believe.

I love how people walk around with crucifixes, skullcaps, pointy hats, funny beards and then say 'you should keep your atheism to yourself.

I've never been insulted by hateful Satanists for not believing in their devil. Only by loving Christians for not believing in their God.

You can laugh at bad things without being bad people.

Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

Judge not lest ye be judged you fat motherfucker

My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.

Peace and love, peace and love!

God gives us all kinds, and we just gots to love 'em however they

Ellie had seen the preacher in town, and although Mrs. Jones said the church was open to everyone, he was closed-off. Judgmental. His probing eyes held accusations of sin and damnation, not forgiveness and tolerance

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

I just took the box and nodded, because that's how you treat crazy people. You nod and count down twenty-seven days for crazy to come to an end.

I came without my consent into this perverse world; since I am here, I am a citizen of the universe; I am a cosmopolitan, like Diogenes, I embrace with my love the entire human race. All mortals together, yellow, black, and white are everywhere my neighbours, are everywhere my relatives.]