Quotes About Tolerance

We cannot go back to a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic type of society.

Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.

If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.

A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor.

Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.

Anche se prendiamo strade diverse, se scopriamo possibilità differenti e torniamo dalla spedizione con esperienze diverse e quindi con soluzioni diverse, non dobbiamo ritenere che nessuna di esse sia inutile a priori, o escluderle in linea di principio solo per il fatto che sono diverse dalla nostra soluzione, inevitabilmente per noi preferibile.

mientras que un dolor de muelas que de pronto cede nos hace sentir en la gloria, los dientes que nunca duelen no nos dan felicidad… De las comparaciones que ignoran el factor de la experiencia no compartida podemos obtener a lo sumo información acerca de la selectividad y el anclaje temporal y espacial de la tendencia a quejarse y del nivel de tolerancia al sufrimiento.

The main point about civility is...the ability to interact with strangers without holding their strangeness against them and without pressing them to surrender it or to renounce some or all the traits that have made them strangers in the first place.

with towards none and charity for all...

with malice towards none and charity for all...

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Don't criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

but let us judge not that we be not judged.

I rejoice with you in the success, which has thus far attended the cause. Yet in all our rejoicings, let us neither express nor cherish any hard feelings toward any citizen who by his vote has differed with us. Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling.

We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizens of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like the Pharisees set ourselves up to be better than other people.

Don't criticise the; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.

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