Quotes About Tolerance

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

In Australia, we point out a person's weaknesses as a way of saying 'I see you and I accept you'. If you do that with Americans, they instantly take offence.

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

People have weaknesses, we should accept it.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Religion has been the most effective weapon, which if used properly can help facilitate the uniting of the world.

Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'

Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions.

Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

When I watch a TV show I wouldn't notice if someone was Muslim or wearing a hijab. It's nice to be on a show where your skin colour or religion is incidental.

The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.

'I Am Singh' underlines the fact that every guy who wears a turban is not an Osama Bin Laden.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

I just went to a wedding of a friend of mine who happens to be gay. Because somebody doesn't think the way I do, doesn't mean that I can't care about them or can't love them.

I'm a married gay man, so you might think that I appreciate the government forcing a Christian baker or photographer or florist to act against their religion in order to cater, photograph, or decorate my wedding. But you'd be wrong. A government that can force Christians to violate their conscience can force me to violate mine.

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

We have to root out the weeds of hate and ensure it doesn't choke away the healthy flowers of diversity in our borough, city, and state.

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves.

We're not friends - in fact, we pretty much as a rule irritate each other. But we've learnt to embrace it and use it as a strength... the other guy's always seeing something from the opposite pole.