Religious Tolerance Quotes:

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

topic: Inspirational, Life, Education, Live And Learn, Taken For Granted

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.

- George Carlin

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Religious Tolerance, Freedom Of Religion

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Motivational, Commitment, Tolerance, Lack Of Commitment, Patience And Tolerance

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Life, God, Acceptance, Theocracy, Deism

Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships.

- L. Ron Hubbard

source: L. Ron Hubbard “The Way To Happiness”, Bridge Publications, Inc.

topic: Tolerance, Humans, Human Relations, Religious Faith, Cornerstones

Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

- Walter Koenig

topic: Religious, Practice, Names, Atrocities Committed, Religious Persecution

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

- Rene Dubos

topic: Diversity, Tolerance, Survival, Inspirational Diversity, Diversity Of Life

If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions which is the love of God. Forgiveness, compassion, tolerance, brotherhood and the feeling of oneness are the signs of a true religion.

- Sri Chinmoy

topic: Heart, Compassion, Essence, God Forgives, Religious Tolerance

Tolerance and human rights require each other.

- Simon Wiesenthal

topic: Rights, Tolerance, Human Rights, Religious Tolerance, Human Rights Day

Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles.

- Abdu'l-Bahá

topic: Love, Tolerance, Triumph, Religious Tolerance

Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.

- Dennis Quaid

topic: Christian, Religious, Believe, Commonality, Religious Tolerance

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

topic: Inspirational, God, Country, Inspirational Patriotic, Inspiring Presidential

The more people come together, the more borders will be opened and people and opinions get together, the more unrenouncable tolerance will be a fundamental part of our social life. Without tolerance there is no religious liberty, no freedom of conscience and no freedom of thought.

- Thomas Klestil

topic: Religious, People, Tolerance, Religious Tolerance, Get Together

Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

- Barack Obama

topic: Religious, Tolerance, Islam, Trojan Horse, Racial Equality

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Inspirational, Sad, Religious, Social Evils, Anti Religious

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

- Robert Kennedy

topic: Religious, Freedom, Men, Inspirational Diversity, Religious Freedom

No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace.

- Sri Chinmoy

source: "Mother India's Lighthouse: India's Spiritual Leaders". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

topic: Fighting, Sacrifice, Perfect, Castes, Religious Tolerance

While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.

- Sam Harris

source: "Science Must Destroy Religion" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2006.

topic: Religious, War, Ideas, Liability, Religious Hatred

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

topic: God, Long, Democracy, Without God, One Nation Under God

North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.

- Nursultan Nazarbayev

topic: Religious, Tolerance, Peaceful, Coexist, Peaceful Coexistence

Genghis Khan decreed religious tolerance for all of his conquered peoples. So I think he definitely would approve of our constitutional protections of freedom of religion. I think he would also approve of the way the U.S. has been able to attract talented people from all over the world.

- Amy Chua

topic: Religious, Thinking, People, Religious Tolerance

We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.

- Charlie Dent

topic: Religious, Holocaust, Tolerance, Inhumanity, Inhumanity To Man

Religious tolerance. No! Zero tolerance for any type of religion.

- Doug Stanhope

topic: Religious, Zero, Tolerance, Zero Tolerance, Religious Tolerance

Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.

- Harry S. Truman

source: Harry S. Truman (1960). “Mr. Citizen”

topic: Religious, Church, Rooms, Religious Bigotry, Religious Tolerance

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

- Thomas Paine

topic: Religious, Religion, Bipolar, Religious Belief, Lunatic Asylums

We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church do not seek to destroy one another in physical violence just because they do not interpret every verse of the Bible in exactly the same way. Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Country, Religious, Civilization, Orthodox Church, Long Way

Religious tolerance does not mean one cannot express his own beliefs. It does mean that seeking to undermine or attack the religious faith and beliefs of another has always been a short road to trouble.

- L. Ron Hubbard

topic: Religious, Mean, Tolerance, Religious Intolerance, Religious Tolerance

I ask you to uphold the values of America and remember why so many have come here. We're in a fight for our principles, and our first responsibility is to live by them. No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith.

- George W. Bush

source: Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

topic: Religious, Responsibility, Fighting, Religious Faith, Unkind Words

The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance.

- Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

topic: Christian, Religious, Tolerance, Establishment Clause, Clauses

Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and al Qaeda promote. To speak out against not just acts of violence, but also those interpretations of Islam that are incompatible with the values of religious tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Religious, Speaks Out, Leader, Religious Tolerance

We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

- Christiane Amanpour

topic: Religious, Zero, Islamic, Ground Zero, Religious Tolerance

I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand for religious tolerance both in act and in spirit.

- Herbert Hoover

source: Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.36, Stanford University Press

topic: Religious, Blood, Presidential, Quaker, Religious Tolerance

When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference. The reward will go to those who dared to step outside the safety of their privacy in order to expose and rout the prevailing prejudices.

- John Shelby Spong

topic: Order, Differences, Dust, Religious Tolerance

If being tolerant of differing opinions, if believing that America has to make it as a pluralistic nation, if being civil, if that makes you a liberal, I plead guilty.

- Bill Moyers

topic: Religious, Believe, America, Religious Tolerance

It is very important to understand that pluralism is part of our system. We don't all think the same thing and part of our strength is that we come from different perspectives. We have to respect one another even when we disagree with each other. There has to be a spirit of tolerance for the views of others, while also being deeply committed to the positions we hold. If we do that, I think we can coexist and learn to love each other better.

- James Dobson

topic: Religious, Thinking, Views, Coexist, Pluralism

Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Religious, Tolerance, Infidelity, Religious Tolerance

Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding first and last things.

- Sidney Hook

topic: Spiritual, Religious, Humility, Firsts And Lasts, Religious Tolerance

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1897). “Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction”

topic: Religious, Reality, Tolerance, Religious Tolerance, Toleration

The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions.... We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn't stop now. To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic republic.

- Barry Goldwater

source: "Excerpts From Goldwater Remarks". Remarks in the Congressional Record, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1981.

topic: Religious, Government, Years, Democratic Republic, Religious Tolerance

Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For such people tolerance is an act of self-abnegation; although they are convinced that those who differ from them must be wrong, they nevertheless will protect their rights.

- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

topic: Religious, Rights, Self, Religious Tolerance, Abnegation

We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god. Indeed, those who discriminate against nonbelievers flout the principle of religious tolerance that they often profess.

- Norman Dorsen

topic: Religious, Profound, Tolerance, Religious Tolerance