Christopher Poole Quotes

Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have friends who are animals and a few who I believe to be robots. All of them are people to me. In my mind, it's not about what you look like or what you do; it's about who you are inside.

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.

I think a lot of the source of how people are treated depends on the fact if someone recognizes them as a human being or not, you know what I mean?

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.

As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

I don't have any blonde friends.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

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

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

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 think we need to treat everybody with dignity.

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.

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

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

How you treat the quiet, shy types is the most important. If you leave them to sit in a corner, they will be noticed, and it will affect everyone's time. I instantly spring on them and treat them as royalty, showing them around and introducing them to everyone so they seem special.