Quotes About Tolerance

The one thing that's always been the center of my political thinking - and it goes back to when I was 19 and editor of my college paper - is an abhorrence of the extreme.

The only thing that can conquer hate is love.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion.

In the real world, people go against my beliefs all the time, and I don't make it my place to - like, I'm not super confrontational.

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

Different people have different opinions, and it's okay to respect all of them.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

India has been a very accepting culture. We pride ourselves on that. That is a global truth. In fact, it forms a major theme in my books.

The secret is learning to accept people as they are, not as you wish them to be.

No one deserves cruelty of any kind. Not on their worst day." Just

Here, Faulkner. Behold the girly texts," Toby said, holding out his phone. "And note that I put up with them solely due to our friendship.

The gooey, amorphous "spirituality" of paganism allowed people to do their own thing in matters of religion. Sing, shout, prophesy, pray, go into a trance . . . nobody gave a fig, so long as you did not attempt to impose any of your high-falutin' opinions on anyone else.

He is concerned by polls showing that Americans' support for the First Amendment—which guarantees the constitutional right to free expression—is waning, especially among younger Americans, who are increasingly intolerant of dissenting opinion. Grygorenko sees this as a sign that society prefers the false peace of conformity to the tensions of liberty. To grow indifferent, even hostile, to free speech is suicidal for a free people.

Just as people will admit to being bad with math more than they will admit illiteracy, business tolerates interpersonal incompetence where it would never allow financial malfeasance.

the word 'stoical' has entered the languages of today to describe patient endurance in the face of suffering.

It would be great if people never got angry at someone for doing something they've done themselves.

People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?

Always solicit and strive to understand perspectives other than your own.

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.

Be kind for everyone you meet carries a great burden.