Phillips Brooks Quotes

Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

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

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

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

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

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.

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

I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad.

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it.

The election is over, and even though there are people who have different ideologies and beliefs, from now on we must all embrace each other, creating a harmonious and unified new Taiwan through our love and tolerance.

I could never be homophobic in any kind of way, dude. I'm such a free bird.

Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other, there shouldn't be boundaries or fundamentalism. But I think literature is more than that; these are political views which most of us hold anyway.

People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.

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.

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.