Quotes About Tolerance

You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.

The Non-Corporeal Soul increases tolerance and acceptance of the pain sensation, which paradoxically automatically reduces pain's noxiousness and intolerableness. The more room for pain, the less it hurts. For the Non-Corporeal Soul, pain and suffering are not something to flee, but a catalyst for the authentication of humanity and the generation of human kindness.

They don't have to agree with you on everything in order to respect you.

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.

You simply cannot tell other people they are stupid, even if they really are stupid.

I have lived with a lot of racism in Spain. Unfortunately, I have had to learn to deal with it.

I mess with white girls, Asian girls, Spanish girls, black girls, everything.

People speak about diversity and representation like the world is ready. But when it actually happens, people can't take change. They can't deal with it. Which is why we have things like cyberbullying, which is why people will send you nasty DMs, say nasty things in your comments. Because they're just not dealing with it, they're not ready.

My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.

Instead of silencing speakers on campus, perhaps do what you're supposed to in college instead: listen to someone who thinks differently than you do.

By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.

Hate speech can't be a part of free speech.

I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.

We need to respect free speech, but we need to respect one another's rights to free speech, too.

I've sat through boring speeches; didn't get up and leave.

I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it's such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that.

If you spend time with people, you understand where they're coming from and you respect them more than if you're judging from a distance.

Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere.

I can't deal with a lot of spice but I have to eat it. I pay the price - I'm on medication for heartburn, so that's how I deal with it.

Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.'

I know I'm kind of a wuss when it comes to spicy foods.

Moths are okay. Actually, moths don't bother me near as much as, say, spiders do.

Being from the countryside gave me a spine, and it's why I'm so accepting - I don't judge people for how they look or how they talk... I just accept everyone.