Viggo Mortensen Quotes

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You treat everyone with respect even though you don’t know them and even though you do not agree with them.

Try and understand--there are views other than yours.

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

Please be kind, don't be judgemental.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person.

What's important to me is people just being people.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.

Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.

You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.

Honestly, I just have to do what's right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway.