Quotes About Tolerance

My best friends - the people I trust the most - are Catholic, Jewish, African-American, gay, tall, short, blonde... you name it. I love people for their hearts, not their appearance or lifestyle.

Many evangelicals have a difficult time adjusting to a highly pluralistic culture, and we often come across as trying to impose our standards—which

As far as assholes go, you're not the biggest one I ever met." "That I'll take as a compliment.

There's nothing I could have done about it then and there's nothing I can do about it now and that's what I have to live with. Maybe that right there is the definition of life. Being alive is learning how to live with the intolerable.

I'm okay." "You're an idiot is what you are." "That too probably.

We are to render good for evil," she urged the Huguenots. "Hate and Christianity are incompatible. We must seek peace with all.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

Nothing will change until people with the power really try to imagine the lives of other folks beyond their own direct experience.

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way he can't do anything to you because you're a mile away and you've got his shoes.

I believe it's after the honeymoon ends that true love begins. It's in the hard times that the greater virtues of love reveal themselves, like tolerance and patience and kindness.

I don't believe society has ever grown more tolerant. It just changes targets.

Ostin, quit calling us mutants

Romance novels are all about desire and happily-ever-after, but happily-ever-after doesn't come from desire—at least not the kind portrayed in pulp romances. Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness—sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.

Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest. Zeke

Expression requires freedom. It seems to me that no matter what you say in this world, someone will be offended.

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Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness – sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another's well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.

Books are the most tolerant of friends.

Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.

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Some think it strength of grace to endure nothing in the weaker, whereas the strongest are readiest to bear with the infirmities of the weak.

Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?

I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.

People get used to everything but being dead.