Quotes About Tolerance

Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

I find the Aussies are great and just let you be. The odd time, somebody has something smart to say, but it's very rare.

As actors, our job is to step into other people's shoes, So our capacity for compassion is like, next level, and that's why it's rare that you find a non-liberal actor.

The most important thing will be when we actually stop talking about sexual orientation. The moment we reach that point when that is not important any more, we've reached a big goal which is a long way in front of us.

I prefer to be liberal and non-judgmental, which helps me reaching out to the people in a better way.

You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.

It's my personal opinion, and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.

I think you can make jokes about anything. But you have to accept that there will be people who don't like it. And they are completely within their rights, just as you are completely within your rights to say whatever you want to say. They're within their rights to react how they're going to react.

I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.

I don't feel that as human beings we have an obligation to dislike someone based on their beliefs, and it's OK to have a human reaction to someone even if you feel what they do is hideous and objectionable. You can still enjoy their company and find them interesting to be around.

Hate is a learned reaction, and it can be unlearned.

It's important as an actor to understand, whatever you do, you're going to have reactions from all kinds of different people, and be OK with that.

However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.

As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.

I don't need every book to have female creators, I don't care if there are books that appeal mostly to guy readers. I don't care if some books have cheesecake. I am fine with all of that. It's the not allowing anything else that makes me furious.

I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.

Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

If you're a real person, I don't care if you blue - I'm going to be your friend. Everybody's tired of all of the hatred and animosity. I just want to live.

A lot of people judge others too quickly without actually knowing the full facts or the actual real person.

If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.

When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there.

I do think that when you get older, you kind of learn not to judge because you realise that no one's perfect, and we're all fighting our own private demons.