Quotes About Tolerance

My personal opinion is that I don't ever do jokes that are about disability or cancer or what are seen as 'edgier' topics. I've been affected by those things myself, and I think that comedy should be a safe place for people.

In any show, not everybody is completely with us on all the topics we talk about. We talk about Hindutva, and we talk about the problems with Islam also. If there are Muslims in the audience, laughing at the jokes on Hindutva, they will have to confront the jokes on Islam too.

I don't know how my mom put up with us. We'd walk around school in torn jeans, put on this punk-rock image and sing ballads everywhere we went.

Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?

What I'm trying to do is get a change in the mindset so people move from a level of mere tolerance to total acceptance and eventually to celebrate diversity. If you feel comfortable with one another, it doesn't matter whether we live in which neighbourhood but we can interact with one another freely. It's a mindset.

We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was their total absence of any derogatory talk about people of any race or culture and we were on a street of many faiths, though no other races at that early time.

For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.

Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.

What I do isn't for everyone and I totally respect that.

As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.

No one is better or worse than anyone else, just different. You're okay, they're okay.

I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

They just had to eat it,

Voltaire once said, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." We would be smart to uphold this ideal.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Thus, we must be insistent on not only our right to express our views, but others to do the same (even if we don't agree with them), lest we all lose our freedom to speak our minds. Voltaire once said, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." We would be smart to uphold this ideal.

a person I have come to accept in the way of things here, which, if they can't be changed, they must be endured.

Comradeship always sets the cultural tone at the lowest possible level, accessible to everyone. It cannot tolerate discussion; in the chemical solution of comradeship, discussion immediately takes on the color of whining and grumbling. It becomes a mortal sin. Comradeship admits no thoughts, just mass feelings of the most primitive sort

If you want to make a society work, then you don't keep underscoring the places where you're different—you underscore your shared humanity

What was Kenzo's reaction to all this criticism? His approach was to stay completely silent. He made no move whatsoever to respond to any of it. And, of course, water eventually wins over fire. One by one, the opponents ran out of heat, their voices faded, their steps faltered and finally, with a wry smile and a shoulder shrug, they were forced to admit defeat.

Wie begrijpt, die haat niet.

Whenever I'm in the company of strangers and speak in a way that reveals my Slav accent, the question follows: "Where are you from?" I always reply politely. It's very important to me that I say exactly where I'm from, and explain where that place is in case the person I'm talking to has never hears of my country ("in Europe, near Italy"). I suppose that's the need in me to feel accepted for what I am.

Que tus intereses sean lo más amplios posibles y que tus reacciones a las cosas y personas sean amistosos y no hostiles: el motor de la felicidad.

If someone tells you that pleasure is wrong and tolerance is weakness, and that you must follow this or that dogma blindly in obedience, and if you are told this is that only right road toward the idealized good, then most likely you are dealing with a fanatic. If you are told to kill for the sake of peace, you are dealing with someone who does not understand peace or justice. If you are told to give up your free will, you are dealing with a fanatic!