Jude Law Quotes

All religions must be tolerated ... every man must go to heaven in his own way. [Die Religionen müssen alle toleriert werden ... denn hier muss ein jeder nach seiner Fasson selig werden.]

We can believe as we want, but we should not force our beliefs on others.

The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.

Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

You don't need to push your beliefs onto other people!

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.

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

Learning to live with offence is the price of living in a diverse society.

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.

All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.

Isn't this country wonderful because you get the right to believe what you want to? But where we all get into trouble is when some people feel they have the right to inflict their beliefs on others.

Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and which is the best and only security for religious liberty.

… tolerance is essential to protect one's own religion and one's own deeply held religious beliefs from external manipulation or efforts to overcome them, perhaps from other religions that are pushing in the opposite direction. That is the basic reason for religious tolerance.

I hope for an America where neither "fundamentalist" nor "humanist" will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.

That's the beauty of democracy — you believe what you believe, I believe what I believe, and as long as we're not hurting each other, that's fine. Placing a value judgment on a person's beliefs has no place in a democracy.

We must see the pluralism of the world, and not bind it by seeking common denominators.

To assure our freedom we must allow others the same freedom, even if occasionally it produces conduct by them which we would hold to be sinful. We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might someday force theirs on us.

I don't have a problem with other people having different faith; my problem is if we confuse respecting that with surrendering our own faith.

There is never one defined right or wrong brother. We each have our individual truths. But together we're the better truth.

Everyone has their own opinions, and they're entitled to them.

Everybody has their opinion. I respect anything that anybody has to say.

Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest.

Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.