Alfred Jules Ayer Quotes

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

To help keep diversity a wellspring of strength and make America a better place for all, I pledge to have respect for people whose abilities, beliefs, culture, race, sexual identity or other characteristics are different from my own.

Everybody is a human being. We should be able to coexist with one another.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Respect for the rights of others means peace.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

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

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

We are ever willing to accord to others that tolerant understanding that we wish others to accord to us.

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

Let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

Tolerance is common sense in a pluralistic society.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

Try and understand--there are views other than yours.

I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.

I ultimately want to contribute something toward bettering human relations.

People's opinions, you've got to respect them.

I believe in diversity in thought, in culture, and all sort of things.

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.

We're all human beings. And we all have our prejudices and so forth, but the thing is, let's be tolerant with each other. And if we could do that, there would be a lot more peace in our world today.

So many of the problems we have today are because people don't respect the beliefs of others.

The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

As long as we observe love for others and respect for their rights and dignity in our daily lives, then whether we are learned or unlearned, whether we believe in the Buddha or God, follow some religion or none at all, as long as we have compassion for others and conduct ourselves with restraint out of a sense of responsibility, there is no doubt we will be happy.