Our Centers for Ethics:

Quotations: Respect, tolerance, diversity

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
— Jesus (from the Bible, Matthew 22:39)

I do not serve what you worship; nor do you serve what I worship. You have your own religion and I have mine.
— The Koran

The words you speak today should be soft and tender ... for tomorrow you may have to eat them.
— Unknown

Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.
— Immanuel Kant, Prussian geographer and philosopher (1724-1804)

In his private heart no man much respects himself.
— Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), American humorist, author and journalist (1835-1910)

The highest result of education is tolerance.
— Helen Keller, American social activist, public speaker and author (1880-1968)

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.
— Bonaro Overstreet, American poet and psychologist (1902-1985)

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
— W.H. Auden, English poet (1907-1973)

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
— Jesse Jackson, American political activist and preacher (b. 1941)

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.
— Elvis Presley, American rock 'n' roll icon (1935-1977)

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
— Jonathan Swift, English satirist (1667-1745)

The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
— Ann Landers (Esther Pauline Friedman), American newspaper advice columnist (1918-2002)

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
— William Hazlitt, English essayist and literary critic (1778-1830)

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