Quotes About Tolerance

We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love each other.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

There never was a war between religion and empirical science, but there is a war between religion and

aceptar que el otro es quien es no signifique que nos guste o que estemos de acuerdo; significa reconocer que así son las cosas y resistir la tentación de tratar de cambiar al otro o imponer nuestro criterio.

Las personas somos un paquete completo y amar es poder aceptar al otro como un solo paquete, quererlo como es, sin intentar cambiarlo. En fin, todo un desafío... que empieza por uno mismo. Aceptarte empieza por aceptarme.

Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.

Taught by centuries of living, the republic of immortal men had achieved a perfection of tolerance, almost of disdain. They knew that over an infinitely long span of time, all things happen to all men. As reward for his past and future virtues, every man merited every kindness—yet also every betrayal, as reward for his past and future iniquities.

Adoctrinada por un ejercicio de siglos, le república de hombres inmortales había logrado la perfección de la tolerancia y casi del desdén. Sabía que en un plazo infinito le ocurren a todo hombre todas las cosas. Por sus pasadas o futuras virtudes, todo hombre es acreedor a toda bondad, pero también a toda traición, por sus infamias del pasado o del porvenir.

distance. I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.

for where the religions spirit is not tolerated, where there is no room for poetry and art, where love and death are robbed of all significant effect and reduced to the level of a banality, philosophy will never prosper.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Never forget, grandchildren, that we must always see all other people as human beings, worthy of respect.

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

The word compassion means literally suffering with. Of course compassion condones suffering in that it recognizes yes, suffering is life.

You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.

His idea of seeing the world was to see, not countries, but people; and to see them from as many angles as possible.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.

But you can't ignore dense people-they're not unarmed; they're armed differently.

It's one thing to be asked to respect someone else's religion. It's another to be asked to respect their taboos.

one of the great things about our country is that you get to believe or not believe in anything you want.

The more time you spend with someone, the more you realize they're not perfect. Everyone comes from a different place with different problems.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.