Quotes About Tolerance

Of course, life is not a Disney movie. Life is messy. There were some people in my family who made gay jokes and used inappropriate language while I was growing up. Coming out to some people was more challenging than others, but in the end, I was amazed by how much my sexuality didn't matter.

In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I just like men.

Walk a mile in my shoes, then come tell me how to live my life.

What I do not like is militant secularism, whereby anything is acceptable as long as it's not Christian.

If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

I just think that most of the people are very close minded.

I think people need to be open minded to everyone.

I believe in the First Amendment. But I also believe we should be mindful of how other people feel.

As a writer, I'm always mindful that not everyone is going to feel the same way I do about something, so my emotions are just my emotions.

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it.

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

It's not my role or my goal to change people's minds. I would hope they would support me, but it's not for me to make them do so.

I feel it's better we have an open mindset to see what exactly we are trying to say. In 'Mulk,' we have not criticised any community, and neither have we said any community is good or bad. We have just shown the true picture and left it to the audience to make the choice.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Christians, Yezidis, and other religious minorities have every right to remain in their ancestral homelands.

No minority should climb all over the majority.

I don't think you can expect someone to be personally attacked day after day, minute by minute, and sit back.

Learn to look at other beings with the eyes of compassion

Patience is the best way to protect oneself.

My child, you should practice so that your mind is like the earth. Whether people put on the earth fragrant oils, good-tasting food, excrement, or urine, the earth receives them all without discrimination.

Deep listening simply means listening with compassion. Even if the other person is full of wrong perceptions, discrimination, blaming, judging, and criticizing, you are still capable of sitting quietly and listening, without interrupting, without reacting. Because you know that if you can listen like that, the other person will feel enormous relief. You remember that you are listening with only one purpose in mind: to give the other person a chance to express themselves

They persistently refused to support either armed party and believed that both sides were but the reflection of one reality, and the true enemies were not people, but ideology, hatred, and ignorance.

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think – in fact they do so." The ABC of Relativity [1925]