Quotes About Acceptance

I believe we have been too tolerant of the intolerant. We should learn to become intolerant of the intolerant.

We're not called to be a tolerant nation. We're called to be a nation of love.

As I get older, I have a different look on life. I just try to be a little more tolerant and a little bit more centered about what's going on around me and not so emotional.

Think about your friends on the Left - are they tolerant of people who aren't for gay marriage? Or of people who are pro-life? These used to be just political differences, and now they are a referendum on what type of person you are and whether you can be in someone's life at all.

I'm a very tolerant person and I'm open to new ideas; I'm not an evangelist. I don't go round telling people, 'You must try this.' But I don't pour scorn on any idea either.

I've become less tolerant as I've got older, but I put that down to realising there are people out there who actually enjoy being destructive, and that those people will never change.

America is very tolerant of mistakes.

I don't like to generalize about men, but I do feel there's still a long way to go if we want a society that is civilized, kind and tolerant, not biased, bigoted, homophobic or racist.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

Those who only tolerate people they agree with or like aren't actually tolerant.

You will not tell me that you accept me. You will not tell me that you tolerate me. That is not your power. I take that from you. You will respect me for who I am.

You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits.

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

So often in sitcoms, it's like, 'Oh, that husband of mine. He just screwed up again.' They just have to tolerate each other. It's not the most fun to play from my perspective. But by the same token, you can't be like, 'We're just like Romeo and Juliet, always in love.'

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

It's hard to be a minority. People look at you a different way, like you don't belong, and I don't think many people realize just how difficult it is to live as a minority. Where I come from, we learn to tolerate one another. Whether one is of Chinese descent or Malay descent, what matters is we're part of the same country, the same world.

As a band, we just don't tolerate any kind of abuse or intolerance of any kind of LGBT people by any kind of government.

If I can tolerate my own singing, then people can do so, too.

I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.