Quotes About Tolerance

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent

Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

I think we live in a pluralistic society where we have to get along with each other and show common grace to each other.

We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.

We live in a society that is afraid of ways of being it doesn't understand.

We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.

I think it is really, really important that those of us who have deep faith lives don't feel that we could just substitute our own views for everybody else in society, regardless of their views.

We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding.

All necessary steps needed to be taken to tackle terrorism will be adopted...but we will keep in mind that a particular religion or section of society does not face problems unnecessary

I believe whether it is the United States or Europe, they will all end up as multicultural societies.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opin