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Quotes About Tolerance

Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.
~ William Shakespeare
You tread upon my patience.
~ William Shakespeare
Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
~ William Shakespeare
I will be the pattern of all patience.
~ William Shakespeare
I have a daughter;Would any of the stock of BarabbasHad been her husband rather than a Christian!
~ William Shakespeare
Asses are made to bear, and so are you.
~ William Shakespeare
Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels.
~ William Shakespeare
Never had he been subjected to such rude treatment. How long could it last? How long, he wondered, could he abide it?
~ William Steig
Mo?e wariaci to tacy ludzie, którzy wszystko widz? tak, jak jest, tylko uda?o im si? znale?? sposób ?eby z tym ?y?.
~ William Wharton
I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.
~ Willie Nelson
If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
~ Willie Nelson
Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless.
~ Willie Nelson
They fight and kill each other. Instead of respecting another man's way, they stop at nothing to get him to adopt their way. Like the Mormons." The
~ Win Blevins
A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Allein schon der Begriff "Toleranz" setzt voraus, dass man von Zuruckgebliebenen umgeben ist, die man tolerieren muss, als waere man selbst der Traeger einer hoeheren, ueberlegenen Kultur, die sich selbst nie hinterfragt.
~ Wladimir Kaminer
The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other.
~ Wole Soyinka
Do not judge lest you be judged yourselves. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it shall be measured to you." (Matthew 7:1-2) The real danger in judging others lies in what it does to us. We begin to believe that the way we do things is right and proper. From there it's an easy slide to thinking of our way as being the only way. One of the greatest lessons the saints have to teach us is to mind our own business.
~ Woodeene Koenig-Bricker
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
~ Woodrow Wilson
No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Once you lead [the] people into war, they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. The spirit of ruthless brutality will enter every fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Saying, "I don't hate gay people - just their lifestyle" is the same as saying, "I don't hate black people - it's their skin that pisses me off."
~ Woody Batilaran
Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man. If the late President Kennedy could get together with Khrushchev and exchange some wheat, we certainly have more in common with each other than Kennedy and Khrushchev had with each other.
~ x malcolm v
If we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.
~ x malcolm vii
Women will cut men a lot of slack for sins made in the name of their beauty.
~ Xaviera Hollander