Quotes About Tolerance

I'm not a guy that really likes to pile onto somebody. Doesn't really matter who it is.

People are going to write things about you, but you have to take the good with the bad, so you shouldn't take it very seriously. If you take it to heart, it'll get very difficult to deal with. So, just take it with a pinch of salt.

Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

I like to build bridges... not walls.

I grew up a clumsy kid with bad hand-eye coordination. Yet here on El Cap, I felt as though I had stumbled into a world where I thrived. Being up on those steep walls demanded the right amount of climbing skill, pain tolerance, and sheer bull-headedness that came naturally to me.

We make artificial divisions everywhere: Democrats and Republicans, black and white, millennials and baby boomers. Even those of us who are against building walls find ourselves pointing accusing fingers at those wall-builders.

People who wander are nicer to be with. Movement militates against hoarding possessions and against bigotry, because you are constantly moving across boundaries and having to negotiate with people.

I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.

It don't matter if you put 'The Dance' out, or any old George Strait song. Someone is going to think that it's awful. You gotta be able to just sit back and kind of laugh it off and know you're doing exactly what you wanna do, and if people don't like it, then it's not really my place to tell them they have to like it.

If you wanna get a report card on your faith, see how you are dealing with people who are really difficult to deal with.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

We are not at war against Islam.

Keep a cool head and a warm heart.