Mao Zedong Quotes

There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Let a hundred flowers bloom.

The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.

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

I think that makes America wonderful, that we have different opinions.

If the so called 'democratic' individuals out there really believe in their talk about diversity, they should let those with truly different opinions be allowed to talk freely in public, too.

Those who know my stance on Israeli democracy also know that there is nothing more foreign to me than the rejection of a position different to my own.

That's what art is about: to create dialogue. Everybody deserves to have their own opinion.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

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.

It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right.

To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

Different people have different opinions, and it's okay to respect all of them.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

One of the lessons learned from 22 July is that we have to take seriously all those people who take part in debates on the Internet, expressing extreme views, and then meet them, discuss with them, bring them into the open. We have not used bans or used the laws to try to forbid parties or political tendencies which we don't like.

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.