Quotes About Tolerance

The ability and willingness to keep two opposing views in mind at the same time are hallmarks of adulthood.

I enjoy it; my experiences abroad have taught me the importance of an open mind and have given me a willingness to wander off the beaten path - not only to keep life interesting, but also to understand in a meaningful way that things do not look the same from every vantage point.

Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so.

You can't rule the world, but what you can do is win the world with love and understanding.

We ain't got no room for the hate no more. That's got to go out of the window real quick.

There are guys you give the benefit of the doubt if they hold you up a little bit longer than normal, and you have that list of guys you kind of know are going to be a problem when you get there. The window of being patient with them is a lot shorter.

It is nice to know different languages and cultures because it opens up your window to life.

In my life outdoors, I've observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area infested with biting insects. They would rather be annoyed by the wind than bitten.

The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine.

Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.

There are many nice, peaceful Muslims, but the Netherlands is far too tolerant regarding the statements of the radical wing of Islam.

Barack Obama winning the election had an instant impact on everything - race relations, national self-esteem, tolerance. It also had an instant affect on 'Frost/Nixon.' At a stroke, instead of being a piece that reminded people of the agony they were in, it became an uplifting message about the agony they had escaped.

We must learn to exist together in peace and love people as they are. That is the only way humanity wins.

I'm not that interested in labels or litmus tests.

We need to bear in mind that we don't have religious tests in this country, and we also need to remember that some of our best allies in the war against Islamic terrorism are Muslims.

I don't believe in purity tests.

I thank God I don't have a problem with any person. Nobody wants to have a problem with another person. I don't want it either.

As an actor, the first thing you learn in drama school is you never judge.

Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

I'm not a culture snob. So while, of course, I think the Mozart 'Requiem' or, say, Beethoven's 'Ninth' are some of the greatest works of art in the history of humankind, that's not to say the Beatles or Queen or Simon and Garfunkel aren't brilliant, beautiful, important works of art that should be sung without a sense of irony.

The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.