Quotes About Tolerance

The right to be respected is won by respecting others.

To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.

Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

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.

I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.

Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

Every true Freethinker accords to each individual the right to mental freedom. Where this freedom leads is no concern of others so long as it encroaches not upon their rights.

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

Tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq.

But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.

I believe in full freedom for Christians of all denominations.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety.

As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.