Quotes About Tolerance

Homosexuals in Russia live in peace, work, are promoted, receive national awards for their achievements in science, art or any other sphere, medals are awarded to them, I have awarded them myself.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

I am not an advocate for religion. I only advocate for sweet general harmony.

Let's train ourselves to not hate each other. We all come from the same consciousness in the mind.

There's a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it.

Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

Reacting to the world with a smile instead of a curse, a wave instead of the middle finger, will actually help you live longer.

The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.

Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days."

A gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say.

Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.

You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.

Skin heads are doing an awful job of promoting racism. You guys need to loosen up, and for god's sake would it kill you to smile.

I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.

How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.

For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.

Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind... That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.