Quotes About Tolerance

In our society, which is multiracial and multi-religious, giving offence to another religious or ethnic group, race, language, or religion is always a very serious matter.

Humour or comedy should not offend anyone.

I have friends on the homosexuality side. It's not something that offends me at all.

Don't break me up - I wouldn't offend any person, be they black, Asian or whatever.

I think people should have the common courtesy and judgment - the good judgment - not to be - not to offend other peoples' faiths.

I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.

People take getting offended in L.A. to an art form.

There is a difference between being offended and being prejudiced and even being bigoted against. There's a difference between that and racism.

In the minds of a Liberal, someone who isn't Christian might be offended if we say Merry Christmas to them, so we shouldn't say Merry Christmas to anyone. The logic is bizarre!

I'm not super-easily offended, but it's a problem when someone's making you feel different or separate because of your race.

There is no right to not be offended, nor should there be.

I don't expect people to know my name. I don't get offended if people don't know me.

You don't get to tell people why they can't be offended. That's not how that works.

Seriously, we all need to get over being offended every time someone says something you don't agree with. Guess what? That's life. And I'd rather have that life any day than only hear from people who agree with me.

I'm not easily offended so whether it be a compliment or a derogatory comment, it really doesn't bother me.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

No offense, Nazis, I don't want to hurt your feelings, but I don't like you. I like Jews.

In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

There's absolutely nothing anyone can say about my mother or myself or my step-father that we haven't heard before. You'd have to be a Dickens or a Nabakov to come up with something really offensive.

The idea that somehow or other you can deal with all the problems in the world by banning a particular religious group from entering the U.S.A. is offensive and absurd.

That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive.

I don't lead a particularly Bohemian existence. The main criterion for me is not to be judgemental of other people so long as what they do is not harmful or offensive to others.

I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.