Quotes About Tolerance

Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.

I certainly have gay friends, but I don't remember thinking, 'Oh my God, I have this friend, and they're gay, and that's so cool.' I mean, I was very naive until I got to a certain age.

Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.

I think it's great now that we seem to be in an era where it's OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society.

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

I'm trying to tell kids if they are gay, it's OK to be gay. I've tried to tell families if they have a gay family member to accept them and love them as they always have.

It's OK to burn a Bible, that's OK. OK to burn a flag, OK, that's all right. But just, you know, for heaven's sake, don't say anything that might offend someone of the Islamic religion.

When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, 'I am a male actor, and its okay for me to play a gay man.'

To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a little extra meat on there. If you like them thin-boned, then that's okay, too.

I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.

If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing.

I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.

I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't change that.

I think it was always okay to be a geek.

The way I saw the world as a child was not wrong. And it's okay to see the world that way. If it doesn't hurt anybody.

You've got to respect people; you've got to understand where they come from. We know where people in Oklahoma come from - that's why we get along.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

I think old people should just be old and go away.

When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.

As you grow older, you become - everybody becomes - less inflexible and a little more accommodating.

The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.

There's some members of the older generation who have been conditioned with such closed minds.

Homophobia is not the monopoly of any one country, culture, or religion.

My kids don't think, for one minute, about where people are born, what language they speak, what colour they are. There's an innocence about young people that is only influenced by older people.