Krista Tippett Quotes

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

You have to respect everybody's desires and way of living.

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?

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

I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices.

Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.

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

I learned tolerance at a very early age.

In everything I do, I want people to get the message of acceptance, to learn not to practice contempt without investigation. I have an obligation to do it.

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

I want people to be more accepting.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own.

I am committed to examining my feelings and will recognize, appreciate and respect the differences among people in our society.

I'm not against anybody. I'm really not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic. I honestly don't care what people do personally in their individual lives.

It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

When I have kids, when I have a family and nieces and nephews, I'm gonna teach them to love more and be kinder and to not judge someone by the colour of their skin or any other thing.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

He who hates vice hates men.

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

The only places where I have found that simple human dignity, that respect for the other man, and the gracious feel of tolerance and humanity have not been either among the heroes of the class-struggle or the 'thinking men' but among my simple 'backward' people.