Quotes About Tolerance

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

It's OK to be different.

My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.

Sometimes too much tolerance can kill you. If you are tolerant of people poisoning themselves to death they will drag you down. They will ruin your life by being intentional obstacles to your dreams.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The future belongs to thouse with open minds aand open hearts, who can appreciate beauty in all it's forms.

For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.

Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.

Individuals who deliberately decide not to take offense lead happier, more productive lives.

All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others.

My aim in life is not to judge.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Be equal to whatever you meet! That is a better way to react to life. It is accomplished simply by meeting everything in understanding, by demanding understanding from within yourself.

He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.

Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.