Quotes About Tolerance

The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.

each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.

Let me tell you about gays in the military. I don't want any gay people hanging around me while I'm killing kids. I just don't want to see it.

True friends love one another, even though we're all a little quirky. We

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.

the idea that someone with a different upbringing, from a different part of the country, with a different outlook and a different viewpoint, might actually have something valid to say, something worth listening to.

Let 'em up easy.

Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.

Peace in Our Hearts Our Creator, show us the way of patience, tolerance, And kindness. Grant us power in our love, Strength in our humility, Clarity in our thinking, Purity in our zeal, Sincerity in our purpose, Kindness in our laughter, Value in our gratitude, Compassion in our friendships, And Your peace in our hearts at all times.

In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash.

Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance.

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.

Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.

Every American has the freedom to choose a particular lifestyle, but that doesn't mean every American has to embrace a particular lifestyle as equally worthy.

Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.

I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and say they are as normal or as worthy as acceptance as others, the people who are on the fringe don't like that and they will come after you. And they have come after me.

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he might well refrain from using legal prosecution or violent reaction to those who do not show the same respect. My basis for this claim is nothing other than the holiest source of Islam, the Quran.

It may be a task that's so Herculean, but I think it's a worthy goal to try to open up America to individuals who just so happen to have a different skin color, that they have every right and every freedom to think what they want to think.