Ithaca Board of Education Quotes

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

… 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.

There are so many people, organisations, parities, religions. Whatever you try, someone or the other will be offended.

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.

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

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

I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom.

My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other.

As there are a very great variety of religious sects in the world, it is particularly recommended, as a means of uniting the inhabitants of the village into one family, that while each faithfully adheres to the principles which he most approves, at the same time all shall think charitably of their neighbors respecting their religious opinions, and not presumptuously suppose that theirs alone are right.

I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people's lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don't you think?

Islamic Exceptionalism, however is neither good nor bad. It just is, and we need to understand it and respect it, even If it runs counter to our own hopes and preferences.

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.

We believe in equal respect for all faiths.

I don't do politics, I don't do religion, I don't do ethnic jokes.

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.

If your religion doesn't respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something.

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

I think people should have the common courtesy and judgment - the good judgment - not to be - not to offend other peoples' faiths.

I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with 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.

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too.

We should accept diversity and pluralism and learn to live in them, and learn how to grow in them, without losing our identity and compromising ourselves