Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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.

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

I celebrate everyone’s opinion even if I disagree with it.

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

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

Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.

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

I don't care what your religion is, as long as it doesn't chastise anybody that's not part of it.

We have to believe that we can hold different points of view without labeling each other bad feminists.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.

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.

It is the business of culture to make us able to consider with intelligent interest all real opinions, even those we do not and can not accept.

I always admired the tolerance of my family - you know, that they tolerated my dissension for the family consensus.

Just because someone or something thinks differently than you do, it doesn't mean that it's not thinking.

We, as a society, need to be open-minded.

I am tolerant. I want to understand other points of view.

I can't - and won't - impose my beliefs on others, either verbally or otherwise. I'm not going to judge people.

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

I lived with people who had varied opinions, some of whom did not accept my Nazi views. I encouraged this. If a man said something that was critical of me or my ideas, I wouldn't consider him an enemy.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

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

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

Gene Roddenberry's thing always was, we should not pass judgment on anything that anyone else believes in or what they do in their lives.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.