Ayaan Hirsi Ali Quotes

I have never altered my feelings towards individuals, as men or as women, whether they believe as I do or not. Can you live as neighbors with me? I can with you; and it is no particular concern of mine whether you believe with me or not.

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today's life, there are many different rules of being politically correct.

I hate political correctness.

If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!

I think people should have the common courtesy and judgment - the good judgment - not to be - not to offend other peoples' faiths.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great.

The students, faculty and administration are reminded of the pluralism of religious beliefs. Specifically, that which is important and meaningful to some, may be offensive and repugnant to others. Each person is reminded to be conscious of and respect the sensitivities of others.

I believe love is love.

There are so many people, organisations, parities, religions. Whatever you try, someone or the other will be offended.

Dialogue can be held with everyone. It is not necessary to be like-minded to hold talks, but it is compulsory to be right-minded.

You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.

The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.

I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.

Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.

I absolutely believe that people should show respect to everybody, regardless of their lifestyle, regardless of their beliefs, religious beliefs or any other kind of belief.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.