Quotes About Tolerance

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers.

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

I believe in the dignity of every person. I believe that while we are all free to practice our religion, and to hold whatever religious beliefs we choose.

Treat people with dignity and respect.

It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

Racism can happen anywhere, in everyday life as well, but it's always very sad, it shouldn't happen.

I don't think that, if you do everything else in your life right and you happen to be gay, you're automatically going to hell.

I don't think, in a country, you can have people thinking and feeling exactly the same.

I hope we can all learn to embrace who we are & not judge people who aren't exactly the same as us.

Love each other, no exceptions.

People are so mean, it's exhausting.

Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.

I like all languages equally.