Quotes About Tolerance

It was the way people thought: what you couldn't do anything about you learned to accept.

Religious minorities (including Jews) will have to wear special insignia in Iraq

Smart cities are the cities of positivity and happy-energy, not the junkyards of technologies but cities of diversity, love, life, beauty, dignity, freedom, tolerance, and equality.

There is no point in fighting condescension with condescension.

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

But I don't know these Muslim people. They seem ... what if she brings a bomb inside the house? What if she blows up my house like all those suicide bombers in Israel?" he demanded.

But American group blindness abroad is also rooted in some of our noblest ideals: tolerance, equality, individualism, the power of reason to triumph over irrational hatred, and the conviction that all men are united by their common humanity and love of liberty.

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

Remind me why I'm doing this again?" I whispered back. "For your real friends, of course: Me, Caleb, and Chad." "That's sweet of you to say, but I'm not sure we're all friends. Mr. Darcy over here," I indicated Caleb with a nod, "finds me barely tolerable.

If there's anything that bothers me, it's one person demeaning another. That really makes me mad!

Fred rightly reasoned that if we accept ourselves we are better equipped to accept our neighbor.

You wouldn't shut up about how brain-damaged that 'little Rusky diva-bitch' was and how he needed to just 'get over his sorry self and give our poor cop a blow job and live happily ever after'—you remember that?

When you get to that point where you notice a person's faults, you've got to decide if you can live with them or can't live without them.

guess," he said thoughtfully. "I mean… it's not like… it's not like he's going to be anything other than Deacon, right?

What? The world needs one less Jew?

Start to flavor your finger with the toothpaste. Then wrap your finger with a soft cloth, add a bit of the paste, and massage your kitten's teeth and gums with that. Stop when she protests too much. Be satisfied if you can do one side—you simply want to build up her tolerance level.

I can't tell you who he is. Why would I presume to know? I'm not Gay Yoda.

Don't bother fighting with your husband over something he's never actually going to do. He'll give up on his own eventually, and then you don't have to be the bad guy.

lower my voice instead of raise it, model flexibility rather than impatience, embrace my child rather than my frustration. I

Conversations across religions need not, and should not, end with all participants proclaiming an ultimate unity of belief. Such an exercise only waters down both traditions into a bland universalism that, in an attempt to be inoffensive, winds up offending everyone.

holy envy," that is, the appreciation of the beliefs and practices of another.2

We love truly only those we love even in their weakness and their poverty. To forbear, to forgive, to console, that alone is the science of love.

We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we'd like them to be.

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.