Quotes About Tolerance

I respect passionate views.

It isn't only in the name of free speech that the views of an itchy polemicist should be tolerated - and I say itchy polemicist promoting thought, not itchy ideologue promoting violence - but because provocation is indispensable to the workings of a sound, creative culture.

I believe you leave opinions and views with your hat and coat at the door.

Whenever you put a family together, they may share some points of views and morals, but there are going to be differences.

My thing is this: You've got to talk about politics because it's out there. But I try to respect the fact that even if you don't have my views, I still respect your view. I may dog your view, but I'll respect that you have that view. And it's OK to come back at me to defend your view.

I am an ardent believer in a free, democratic and inclusive society, and the robust exchange of views that is essential to tolerance.

The arts are the most uniquely suited to provide young people with critical-thinking skills, problem-solving, teamwork and collaboration, empathy and tolerance and compassion, looking at the other point of views.

I hope that people who might speak out respectfully and out of concern would not get mobbed or bullied for their differing views.

In a healthy, normal society, people can disagree with one another, even have diametrically opposing views, and this does not at all mean that they must hate one another. The Polish authorities, however, have made the division of Poles their primary task.

I'm a strong believer in free speech to the degree that I support everybody's right to speak, including those whose views I find disgusting.

Even relatively tolerant countries fine and jail people for expressing heterodox views. America uniquely protects speech.

Bigotry and prejudice are not unique to groups that have held privilege, and ascribing views to entire groups rather than to specific individuals is illiberal.

We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.

Freedom of religion requires not only freeing religion from undue government regulation and interference. It also requires freeing religion from discrimination and from vile acts of hatred and persecution.

It's totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race - to despise an entire nation - to vilify an entire religion.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

The Palestine I know is a place where Christians and Muslims are equal. My mother, a Muslim village girl, attended a Catholic girls' school in Ramallah, and my refugee husband spent the Second Intifada side by side with his Christian brothers from Bethlehem.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

I think, in this country, anybody can do whatever they want to do as long as it's not hurting anybody else or violating the laws of society.

When we tolerate violations to the Constitution, the entire moral foundation of our political system is shaken to its core.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous.