Quotes About Tolerance

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

We want to lead normal lives, lives where our religion and our traditions translate into tolerance, so that we coexist with the world and become part of the development of the world.

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.

To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can't be a bad thing.

A high openness score means you're open-minded - you see the world for what it is - whereas a low openness score means you're incredibly closed-minded, and you see the world the way you want to see it, regardless of what is actually going on.

I kick it with a whole bunch of people, whereas some people only want you to kick it with one race, you know.

Leftwing people find it very hard to get on with rightwing people, because they believe that they are evil. Whereas I have no problem getting on with leftwing people, because I simply believe that they are mistaken.

In Indonesia, Malaysia, wherever Muslims are living, they don't want to live in harmony.

There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.

Wherever Islam gets its foot on the ground, you see less freedom, less freedom of speech, less freedom of anything.

Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.

Not only are drinking, smoking, swearing, dancing and going to movies not issues... they simply do not matter. They matter to fundamentalists, of course, but to anyone else outside the church, they could care less whether we smoke or attend movies. Absolutely no one gives a tinker's damn whether I say 'tinker's damn' or not.

If we want to prevent another Cambridge Analytica from happening... that starts with regulating big tech beyond just data protection issues, but also looking at whether or not we want as a society to tolerate manipulative design.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Some people think I am gay, which I think is awesome.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.

Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.