Theo Epstein Quotes

Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.

People should be respected for the strength of their convictions, and I also believe in freedom of expression.

Everyone needs to understand that we were meant to live together in this country. We have to get to know one another; even if we don't agree, we have to enable each side to express itself.

Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.

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

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

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.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

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

I've been in enough positions to respect people with different views.

Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

It really is possible to disagree with someone's policies without hating them. Grown-ups can do that.

Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.

Whatever differences we have, tolerating others' opinions is a prerequisite to a functioning and free society.

I am an ardent believer in a free, democratic and inclusive society, and the robust exchange of views that is essential to tolerance.

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

You can have your own thought process about things, but you still need to include and co-exist with other people.

One of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with people with whom we disagree.

I write a world where everyone is partly right.

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.

Society is unity in diversity.

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.