Michael Bloomberg Quotes

I want a world where everything is welcome, everything is valid, everything is acknowledged, embraced, and accepted. To me, that's a perfect world.

Toleration is the best religion.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

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

Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another.

We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.

The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, — the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principal of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

America is made of different races and different religions, but we're all co-travelers on the spaceship Earth and must respect and help each other along the way.

If tolerance is the best we can do in this moment, then by all means let's be tolerant. But by stopping there, by merely tolerating each other, we miss so much.

Acceptance is the only thing you should teach. Be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Dalit, you must inculcate acceptance, not tolerance.

My religion is inclusivity.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

I love diversity.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. 'Hey, y'all, I'm cool with everybody.' That's my message.

We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.

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

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.

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

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.

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

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.'

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.