Quotes About Tolerance

I'm friends with people that probably would describe themselves as socialists and people that are much more conservative than I am. I can always find a middle ground.

People who fundamentally disagree with you politically or socially are not bad people. I can't expect that other side to have compassion for me if I can't put myself in their shoes, too.

We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.

Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

Anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews; it is a problem for all of our society.

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

I don't like orange soda, but I don't wish Sunkist goes out of business. I just don't drink it.

Fair and softly goes far.

Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.

We will not accept in our country even a single soldier who will attack Muslims or Arabs.

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

I don't care who anybody sleeps with. If a couple has been together all that time - and there are gay relationships that are more solid than some heterosexual ones - I think it's fine if they want to get married. I don't know how people can get so anti-something.

It infuriates me that when people forget what it's like not to be a Christian, and they get into other people's face about their life or their beliefs. It's amazing to me that people feel their relationship is so solid with God that they have enough time on their hands to question mine or to fix mine.

I have many friends who had kids solo, who adopted, who used surrogates - no one was judging them - it's a new world!

I believe the gun is no solution to problems.

One cannot be dogmatic about the right solution.

I prefer to solve conflict with kindness. That's my first approach. If that doesn't work, there's always the alternative. I'm from Israel. I can tell a person what I think if I have to!

Hate won't solve anything.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.

I don't agree that everyone should agree with everyone's lifestyle. I think that some people aren't going to agree, but I think that when you're mean and when you ridicule people it's a sign of your own insecurities.

I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that's them.