Quotes About Tolerance

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home

You do not fight for freedom, if you do not respect the freedom of other people. Freedom isn't about me it's about respecting the choices of other people. You do not respect liberty if you do not accept the fact that everyone around you has a different opinion. You shouldn't say I believe in liberty, you should act it out.

Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways an yours.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Je hais vos idées, mais je me ferait tuer pour que vous ayez le droit de les exprimer. I hate your ideas, but I would have myself killed so that you could have the right to expres them.

Is it not strange that the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion have always proved themselves intolerant of the spiritual liberty of others? Robert E

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin¦ Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because ¦ of the color of your skin.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Everyone is entitled to their own incorrect opinion.

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'

It is better to live alone in the desert than with a crabby, complaining wife.

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.

Although I had long since stopped regarding myself as a Christian, I still thought of Christians as being basically decent, tolerant easy-going types like myself, while Muslims I'd always thought of as, well, let's say a bit prone to fundamentalism.

A cloud of bugs settled around me. Swathes of mosquitoes landed on my arm, tickled my skin, and took off. Why didn't they bite? Professional courtesy, I guess.

Lo primero que tenemos que aprender a hacer es dejar de agredir, de maldecir y de odiar a nuestros «enemigos». La sabiduría nos permite entender que ellos no están mucho más ciegos que nosotros.

La experiencia me ha enseñado que uno de los métodos más eficaces para derrotar a un rival en el vacilante corazón de una mujer, es elogiar sin restricciones a ese mismo rival, es volverse tan comprensivo, tan noble y tolerante, que uno mismo se sienta conmovido.

Me aburrí de mí mismo, de mi propia paciencia.

I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. (ix)

Not tailgating acknowledges the mystery and humanity of strangers. It's one of those small habits that speaks volumes.