Quotes About Tolerance

Citizens are urged to tolerate cheerfully any minor inconvenience this may cause them; your right of privacy will be respected in every way possible; your right of free movement may be interrupted temporarily, but full economic restitution will be made.

they care about skin color—by making point of how they don't care.

They're not cruel; they're just pig-headed and provincial. The fact that you have feelings never occurs to them.

Is mixed-up place another way; they care about skin color—by making point of how they don't care.

I grok people. I am people so now I can say it in people talk. I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody, and I will join it at once.

1. Thou shalt not force thy neighbor to alter his consciousness. 2. Thou shalt not prevent thy neighbor from altering his consciousness.

The absolutist One True Faith came out of the Dark Ages and should get sent back there. We live with varying perspectives, especially if we have to deal with people of varying cultures.

Being modeltheists, the Fundamentalists of course reject any model but their own Eternally True Model; but why are they always especially sarcastic and suspicious when Oriental or African sources are quoted? Bronowski, we noted, said frankly that the Japanese are incapable of seeing the world objectively — i.e. the way he saw it — but how many Fundamentalists think that, too, but are too politic to say it openly?

Nobody can take an acid trip more than about once a week, whatever you may have read in the tabloids. This is becausd LSD has an unusual "tolerance" effect, which comes on quickly and goes away just as quickly. In general, anyone who takes a dose of acid within three of four days of their last trip will get no effect at all. A waiting period is, therefore, built into the drug.

The only answer I can see is that no speculation is obnoxious to an open mind but all new and challenging speculations are obnoxious to Fundamentalists.

I am merely trying to show that, in the present primitive condition of this backward planet, we are still governed by imprinting and conditioning — that all of us, like Mr. Gardner and Mr. Randi, find it literally impossible to think, even for a nanosecond, about certain ideas — that you and I think we are more tolerant than Mr. Randi or Mr. Gardner until we confront that which is strictly intolerable for us —

What do you do about people who don't like having your dog in their lap when they come to visit?" Farrell said. "We assume there is something wrong with them," Susan said. "And we try to help them.

But who are you to say a person should be put away? I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

Pete was relaxed around them, so Maggie tolerated them, but only when Pete was near.

Statesmen can strive for the universal values of justice, fairness, and tolerance, but only so far as they do not interfere with the quest for power, which to him is synonymous with survival.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

To be social is to be forgiving.

For to be social is to be forgiving.

Grievances are a form of impatience. Griefs are a form of patience.

If you asked me what Uncle Vanya is about, I would say about as much as I can take.

San Francisco seems to be the last sanctuary for the rootless in its tolerance for every form of lifestyle.