Quotes About Tolerance

I think most people like a bit of freedom and hearing things that they might not agree with, rather than just having everybody shutting their mouths.

We need to ban this whole culture of shutting down and banning things.

When I read a script, if I feel it's written with the idea of just bashing other people, then I shy away from it. Sometimes it's some guy coming out with his own hatred, and I don't need to be a part of it.

I don't have much patience with sick people.

Be open-minded so you can always see the other side of the coin.

How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?

All sides must learn to respect one another.

By nature, I am someone who hews to the middle. I need to hear all sides of a story. Unless I am engaged in a tough round of dominoes or Scrabble, I think of myself as unreasonably reasonable.

If you have empathy for both sides, then that's the same as having no empathy at all.

Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.

Gray means being open-minded. I always look at the world that way; I'm able to hear both sides of an argument. I don't listen to opera, but I don't think it's good or bad; it's just its own thing. I can completely appreciate it.

It's OK for two sides to disagree. It's perfectly fine. It's normal.

I really am one of those people who are mixed on many issues and can see many legitimate sides.

When we lose hope that there is a possibility of reaching the other side - I don't even like to say the 'other side' because there are so many sides, and breaking it down into us/them is oversimplifying - it allows us to treat people in a way that's incredibly destructive.

People love to take sides, but it's not effective. It's not really an effective way of communicating something, because you're either already part of the side or you're going to feel attacked and get defensive.

I can empathise with different cultural expressions and am open to things that seem strange at first sight.

There is no sign saying 'good Muslim' or 'bad Muslim.' How many lives will be lost or destroyed trying to determine who is good or who is bad?

Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world.

Indian films do well in Pakistan. Pakistani artists do well in India. The signal has always been clear that people on both sides of the fence are not interested in the hatred.

I have noticed encouraging signs in the fight against religious intolerance, and I am impressed by the outstanding degree of human rights activism in India.

Personally, I think people need to get over this 'being offended' thing. Being offended does not give you the right to silence people. I get offended by things all the time - it's just part of life. The right not to be offended is not a human right, especially in a democracy.

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

To think that everybody's like you is silly.

I don't write off silly pop people at all, because you never know where they're coming from.