Quotes About Tolerance

I pride myself on being able to put up with a lot," Nellie said. "But bagpipers are pretty much my limit.

I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman.

If you want to be part of a human community you have to suffer fools—patiently, if not gladly—and you must practice civility as best you can.

Among a broken people an unbroken man can only rarely be tolerated—he becomes a too-painful reminder of what the people as a whole had once been.

For a man who claimed he didn't have much patience, he'd given her oceans of it. He

Laura thought of Ma's saying, It takes all kinds of people to make a world.

I don't care if you're a bloody Hindu.

Uspješan suživot zahtijeva da se razlike izme?u dvije osobe u najmanju ruku svedu na to?ku me?usobnog toleriranja, premda je taj stupanj ?esto mogu?e dosti?i tek nakon što se volja barem jedne od dviju strana smanji toliko da je njome mogu?e upravljati - otprilike kao kada se tumor izloži golemoj dozi radijacije.

The thing people are never indifferent to are differences.

There are worse things in life to be than fat, and one of them is ignorant. Another is prejudiced. Another is deliberately cruel.

Hate the behavior, not the individual.

What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are.

Why is everything always my decision? I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else. Oh, I remembered now. Great, I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude

I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years," I said.

Why do i put up with you? You insult me at every turn.

Don't ask," Micah said. "They've been best friends for years. Sometimes you just nod and let them have their guy moment." Dr. Cross frowned harder. "I don't understand." "I'm the wife," Micah said, "she's the husband, and he's the husband's best friend. Does that explain it?

We lose the right of complaining sometimes by forbearing it

The constitution does not recognize different classes of citizenship based on time spent living in the country. I am a citizen, with the same rights as your son, or you. As a citizen, and as a student, I am protesting the tone of this lesson as racist, intolerant, and xenophobic.

thought of the classic definition of a Unitarian:

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.