Warren E. Burger Quotes

It doesn’t matter what the religion of the country or the ruler is so long as minority rights are protected.

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.

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

A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

… toleration is the best and only policy; … it is best to suffer colonies or inferior nations to retain their own particular creeds and rites and ceremonies in religion, and their own particular modes of administering justice in civil or criminal matters; that improvements may be proposed to them, but not enforced; that till they can be properly enlightened, they must be left to indulge their own particular notions.

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

Everybody has views in life, and it should be respected.

I have never altered my feelings towards individuals, as men or as women, whether they believe as I do or not. Can you live as neighbors with me? I can with you; and it is no particular concern of mine whether you believe with me or not.

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.

In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.

Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

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.

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

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

Many of us, both Jews and Christians, want the public square to be pluralistic, which is neither partisan nor naked.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

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

I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything.

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

Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.

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 pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.

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