Quotes About Tolerance

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

Dev-"Come in peace or leave in pieces

Your time with him is telling. The nice girl sits in a chair after a week of knowing the guy, bored out of her mind as he does something that interests him. He may be watching sports on TV, cleaning his fishing gear, strumming his guitar, or working on his car. She is miserable but doesn't say a peep. Instead, she tries to make the best of it and twiddles her thumbs politely, just so she can be in his company.

I try not to expect people to be who I wish them to be, rather than who they are.

I don't put up with your thorns. I like them.

Did you ever find yourself considering matters from the Chinese point of view?' 'It would be strange if I never did, wouldn't it? Everyone should be able to consider matters form someone else's perspective.

It hadn't shocked the old woman, not much. She had got past being shocked early in life.

To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

I was a human rights defender, and I based my criticisms of the state on legal grounds. But authoritarian governments are not fond of shades of gray; they cannot tolerate any criticism at all

Yet decency nagged at their reluctant hearts; and they acknowledged that, too, in unconscious phrases -- 'I fail to understand...', 'I cannot bring myself to overlook...', 'Tolerance is all very well up to a point...' -- as if they had tried the ways of magnanimity but found them too exigent.

A narrow mind and a big mouth usually lead to pointless arguments.

There is nothing in the world, I tell you, so maddening as a person who doesn't answer when you abuse him. You shout and you scold, you are ready to burst a gut, and he stands there and smiles....

If you discriminate too much, you limit yourself.

Acceptance is the slow poison plaguing today's society

Everyone is fighting their own war in life, don't be the reason for a new battle in anyone's life.

Patience is never served on the platter...

Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.

Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

It's more important to show him how to be good to people than how to judge them.

We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization, a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and - in contrast with Islamic countries - respect for religious and political rights, a system that has as its value understanding of diversity and tolerance ... The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago.

It's only a short step from a burning bush to a burning heretic, after all. I try not to bother God, and hope He'll do me the same courtesy.

Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.