Quotes About Tolerance

I completely and wholeheartedly denounce any kind of white nationalism, any kind of Nazism.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.

What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.

I can understand that people who have a very different view to mine are motivated by the purest of motives. All I ask is that they might give the same benefit of the doubt to those with whom they might disagree with.

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

I really don't care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.

Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

I believe in less government interference in people's personal lives, including whom to marry, when and whether to bear a child and how to raise kind and compassionate children.

As a practicing Jew, I have studied with Christian teachers whom I respect for who they are and what they are, including their positive concern with Jews and Judaism.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Freedom of speech is freedom above all for those whose views you dislike most.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

I bless a society that tolerates and supports an eternal childhood for some, a childhood whose playfulness can, in turn, be a blessing to society.

Loving someone whose ideas we find detestable can seem impossible, and empathizing with them isn't much easier - but it's so important to remember that listening is not agreeing.

Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.

Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me?

Scientology, Buddhism, the Kabbalah... if it makes people's lives better, and easier, then I'll do it. Why not? People scoffed at Christianity 2,000 years ago, didn't they?

Why not be a person who is loving towards humankind as a whole and people as individuals?

We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.