Ideological Tolerance Quotes

Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.

I'm not 100 percent anybody's ideological prism.

I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.

We don’t need to ban bad ideas. We just need to criticize bad ideas.

America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.

We leave our personal ideologies at the door... We only work for mainstream political parties.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought we hate.

As a politician, I engage with all kinds of opinions irrespective of whether they are in the media or not.

Venezuela's government must work toward achieving a true culture of democracy for our region. There's no room for persecution based on ideological reasons or for thinking differently.

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts. Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact.

America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

No ideology should ever get a pass simply because it is cloaked in a religious robe.

The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

My father wouldn't care if I were a communist as long as I win.

There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homogeneous population, the state has produced some of our more radical political thinkers, and its people have put their prejudices aside to vote for them.

I don't believe just because you're a conservative that you're angry.

I keep Reagan's 11th Commandment that I don't run down other Republicans.

I was warmly embraced by the Tea Party. They openly seek more minorities.

People who are for diversity of thought, actually, are okay with hearing some opinions that they don't like. I quite literally see none of that on the Left.

It's time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

I realized very quickly that the main thing that the left was not in favor of was free speech - that there was an intolerance about different ideas and opinions.

I'm not a communist, but I'm not anti-communist either. I'm not afraid of communists, and declare that if a country wants to be communist, it has the right to be so.

Moderate to conservative Democrat. But I'm not going to impose my views on the editorial page.