Quotes About Tolerance

The city had been founded on the sound principles of religious tolerance, a free press, and good landscaping, by William Penn—a man who grew tree saplings in bathtubs, and who had imagined his metropolis as a great nursery of both plants and ideas.

Some people like to argue about God." "Not necessary," he said. "I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion.

She and I respect each other, which makes up for the fact that we dislike each other.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Nunca discutas sobre Dios. Lo mejor es decir 'Estoy de acuerdo contigo'. Entonces vas a tu casa y rezas lo que tú quieres. Esta es mi idea para que las personas estén en paz con la religión.

Even if you are eighty years old, or a lesbian, or a strident feminist, or a nun, or an eighty-year-old strident feminist lesbian nun who has never been married and never intends to get married, the politest possible answer is still: "Not yet.

My truth is not a condemnation of yours.

Nunca discutas sobre Dios. Lo mejor es decir «Estoy de acuerdo contigo». Entonces vas a tu casa y rezas lo que tú quieres. Ésta es mi idea para que las personas estén en paz con la religión.

How quickly I judge, and therefore diminish their humanity.

Nothing can be more infuriating than being forgiven over and over again.

I felt about him as I might feel about a friendly, dimwitted dog that had decided to move in with us. He could not be cast out into the street, but he was shedding all over the furniture.

unnecessary discomfort is a form of martyrdom with which I have no sympathy.

Five years of marriage have taught me that even if one is unamused by the (presumed) wit of one's spouse, one does not say so. Some concessions to temperament are necessary if the marital state is to flourish.

You must win the respect of your subordinates by treating them with absolute fairness. Of course it helps to have an inherently dominant personality and a character both strong and just, commanding and yet tolerant…

Men are frightful nuisances at times; how much simpler life would be if we women did not have to make allowances for their little peculiarities.

Prejudice of one sort or another seems to be a universal human weakness. Few

I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being — to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame

They were just cups of acceptance.

Really I have been thankful on my knees every time I have not said what I was going to say when I've been annoyed.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

Beware how you pass judgment on your superiors," he said mildly, "at least until you know how to put yourself in their place and see from their view.

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.