667 Quotes About Tolerance

Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within that interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters.

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.

Instead of picking on each other's mistake, let us be human across intellect and faith.

I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Friendship is like a walk in the wood; you may not know the terrain too well or even know where you are headed yet you enjoy it all the same!

All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.

For me, religion is like a rhinoceros: I don't have one, and I'd really prefer not to be trampled by yours.

If you cannot wait for time to unearth roots, you must dig.