Quotes About Tolerance

TO ME, THE definition of hell is simple: it is a place where there is no understanding and no compassion.

We all lose when we think that everything people in our party do and say is right and everything people in another party do and say is wrong. This is simply not true. If we think, speak, and act only along party lines, we operate like a machine without insight, without understanding, without compassion.

Whatever views we hold, we should be careful not to get caught up in thinking that our view is the "best" and that only we have the truth.

If one person keeps calm and smiles at a provocation, the whole world will have a better chance for peace.

Compassion doesn't mean that you have to love that person who's so difficult. But if you stop and look deeper, you'll see that person's difficulties. If you can accept him, then you can love him.

When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result ... learn and practice nonattachment from views in order to receive others' viewpoints.

Therefore the Lotus Sutra is like a cool breeze, a gentle rain, assuaging the stifling atmosphere of contention between the conservatives and the progressives.

If, in your mind, you think, "I wish this fellow would quit talking, so I could concentrate," you have already lost your mindfulness. But if you think, instead, "If he wishes to talk, I will answer, but I will continue in mindfulness, aware of the fact that we are walking along this path together, aware of what we say, I can continue to watch my breath as well.

Joking about violence is not funny.

Not every anti-Semite is Joseph Goebbels. You can not like Jews much and be no great harm to them.

Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.

I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at the face in the hijab - and try to imagine the one beneath the niqab - before you depersonalise its wearer.

Jews have long experience with Christians who have tried to help us in putting our Judaism behind us.

I don't consume alcohol or colas. But I don't judge people who do. People make their own decisions.

I ain't got no right to judge someone.

I don't really judge. To each his own. You like what you like.

If you really want to be able to express what goes on with other people, you have to be able to look at them and empathize with them and not judge who they are and what they do.

I would never judge another woman. For me, being a feminist means that even if we don't agree on everything, we should fight for each woman to be free to choose who she wants to be.

It's not my style to judge anybody.

Well, for one, I don't judge my characters.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

I don't judge my characters.

I could be less impatient with people. I sometimes judge by impressions.