Quotes About Tolerance

There is a great deal of nonsense written on the subject of diversity and multiculturalism, but the fact remains that the great challenge facing our world is that of maintaining clear convictions and strong commitments while living in peaceful proximity with people with different convictions and commitments, avoiding brittle bigotry on the one hand and soggy relativism on the other.

You can require respect, ask for tolerance but you cannot demand validation

People are sometimes really different from what you first think. You have to give them a chance.

San Josemaría fomentaba un clima vital abierto, en el que cada uno pudiera manifestarse sencillamente como era, y en el que se respetaran las opiniones de unos y otros. Detestaba la tiranía, «porque es contraria a la dignidad de la persona humana»

Hay que respetar las legítimas ansias de verdad: el hombre tiene obligación grave de buscar al Señor, de conocerle y de adorarle, pero nadie en la tierra debe permitirse imponer al prójimo la práctica de una fe de la que carece; lo mismo que nadie puede arrogarse el derecho de hacer daño al que la ha recibido de Dios»

FEEL SAD, NOT MAD Imagine how painful and miserable someone's life must be to have time to be that mean.

Fear of the unknown and the other is the root of almost all hate. It is born of ignorance and fed by those who would keep us divided.

...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

You can do anything to my food and I'll still eat it.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

Hatred is one long wait.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

Reject hatred without hating.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.