Quotes About Tolerance

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

There are many paths to God. What really bothers me - and what I think is the height of arrogance and stupidity - is when one group believes their way is the only way. That really gets my dander up.

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.

Stupidity without malice isn't horrible; some people can't help it.

I run into a lot of ignorance and stupidity. It gets really frustrating, but you have to take yourself out of it and realize what's happening in the bigger picture.

There are those who discredit a style or a way of playing and those who accept all the different styles.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

I was raised in Holland, where race and homosexuality are not a subject matter but rather a part of life.

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

I think Americans did learn that you just are not going to be able to live well if you subordinate people on the grounds of their religion.

Where I think people are being offensive to religion in this country - whichever religion that might be, but particularly the one I and many other Christians subscribe to - well, we will just call it out, and we will demand the same respect that people should provide to all religions.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.

Trying to imagine what it's like to be someone else is never a substitute for actually living that way, for acknowledging the respect that we need to have for each other's experiences.

At the end of the day, I always maintain you can substitute 'The Book of Mormon' for 'The Bible: The Musical' or 'The Quran: The Musical.'

In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.

People don't think the struggles gay people have are worth talking about because everyone's decided that we're all equals now. Those struggles are much more subtle now. But the weight of being different does carry on.

Homophobia obviously still exists, but it is a lot more subtle, and it is a lot more in the background.

That's understandable, but it also shows we are a bit intolerant of alien intelligences.

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

To watch powerlessly while a loved one slowly gets weaker is awful. To grieve and at the same time to make the most of each day. Of the time one still has. One prepares oneself consciously and unconsciously for the loss one knows will come. In despair one can be anything but sympathetic and tolerant.

Sometimes when you're arguing with a fool, he's doing the same thing.