Quotes About Tolerance

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.

A classical liberal is someone who wants a society that maximizes peace, civility, tolerance, and well-being for everyone. One that opens opportunities for everyone to advance themselves.

When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.

If people want to believe in this god, or that god, that's fine by me, believe away.

Please raise your children with love and non-judgement. Tell them everyone has the right to love who they want to love. It shouldn't threaten you or who you are.

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

I'm absolutely not looking for someone who agrees with me about everything or someone who wants to please me by believing what I believe.

Is it my business if somebody wants to burn a flag?...No, it's not...That's called logic and it'll help us all evolve.

I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,' or in other words, that He renders the worst of human conditions tolerable, while He permits the best, to be nothing better than tolerable.

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)

Gandhi insisted upon returning love for hatred and respect for contempt.

Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad.

Intolerance in the 23rd century? Improbable! If man survives that long, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear. It's a manifestation of the greatness that god, or whatever it is, gave us. This infinite variation and delight, this is part of the optimism we built into Star Trek. ~Gene Roddenberry

I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

What he didn't say was that you don't get cold-resistant because your jackets suck, you just stop complaining about it after a while, because complaining doesn't make you any warmer.

Empathy, at its core, is knowing how not to hurt each other.

It's so easy to laugh. It's so easy to hate. It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

We are a society impatient with its misfits

When you know love then that is the time you forget hate.

There are no absolutes, and your way is neither the only way nor the right way.