Quotes About Tolerance

I never like to say that I'm better than anybody else.

I don't think I'm better than anyone else.

You have to be ready for anything and everything and accept everything the way things are.

Anytime you present a message that is seen as hate, you're going to have a negative impact.

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.

I always tell the parents, 'You don't have to approve of your children; you just have to accept them for who they are.'

I was fortunate enough to go to an art school where we had a lot of different ethnicities represented.

he adopted a sound view of life, appreciating that its universal law obliges us to put up with the less than perfect in everything.

Cada cual tiene su modo de amar; el mío, sin embargo, no hace mal a nadie; ¿por qué, entonces, la gente habrá de ocuparse de mí?

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

To keep yourself from feeling too much anger or hatred against other people... requires a strong heart...

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

But what is the imagination for if not tto grasp how the world feels to those who don't think what you think?

to bar communication between intellectuals, who are always our best hope of peace, is particularly self-defeating and inane. It declares, inter alia, that we have a) made up our minds about what we think, b) closed our minds to what others think, and c) chosen to go on hearing nothing with which we happen to disagree.

If you're a Christian you don't sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if they're happy and they're committed in a relationship.

It is very easy to sit in judgment upon the behavior of others but often difficult to realize that every judgment is a self-judgment.

If men knew each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

It is very easy to misunderstand a strange people, and very hard to understand them thoroughly.

Hating your neighbour is almost as secure a psychological prop as loving him, especially if he differs from you in looks, language or habits.

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

To listen to someone means devoting time to the process, putting your own concerns on hold, remaining silent even when you're dying to say something. Patient listening also involves a willingness to postpone judgement about what is being said. Mostly, we want to rush in to agree, to disagree, to object, to correct; but listening demands the patience to let all that wait until the other person has finished saying to us what they want to say to us.