Quotes About Tolerance

Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

The way I see life, it's like we're all flying on the Hindenburg, why fight over the window seats?

Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.

Life is too short to judge others. It is not our job to tell someone what they feel or who they are. Why not spend some time on yourself instead? I don't know you, but I can guarantee you have some issues you can work on.

Life is too short to judge others. It is not our job to tell someone what they feel or who they are. Why not spend some time on yourself instead?

Im used to slowing down so that everyone else can catch up

Don't judge a man till you've walked a mile in his shoes.

One of the great pleasures of my life is making comments like this, because having a gay son is my bigoted prick of a father's worst nightmare.

Pain, Rhuan decided, did not simply hurt. Pain also exhausted a person, sapped his soul, thinned his spirit. Worse, pain was tedious.

In the middle of this poor life, we are surrounded by mystery, and the pity of it is that we would rather just be poor. No real tolerance for mystery at all.

I just let people believe what they please. I don't feel like it's my responsibility to quantify myself for them.

People will love you or hate you for being different, but who's to say which way it'll go? You never know. It's completely arbitrary.

No matter what religion people choose to live by, I came to realize that their choice is ultimately what is best for them. The holy wars are what get us into trouble. If people minded their own business as far as religion is concerned and didn't get caught up in saving other people's souls, they just might be able to sace their own souls and bless those around them with their contagious state of euphoria. Indeed, the world needs more love.

There is a husband who requires mileage receipts, another who wants sex at three a.m. One who forbids short haircuts, another who refuses to feed the pets. I would never put up with that, all the other wives think. Never. But my agent has a theory. She says every marriage is jerry-rigged. Even the ones that look reasonable from the outside are held together with chewing gum and wire and string.

There is a husband who requires mileage receipts, another who wants sex at three a.m One who forbids short haircuts, another who refuses to feed the pets. I would never put up with that, the other wives think. Never.

I can't bear it," she says. Margot nods. You can barely bear it, I think reflexively.

dukkha, which is usually translated as "suffering," can have other meanings. In Tibetan Buddhism, the word is sometimes slanted differently, she says. Instead of saying that life is suffering, they might say that life is tolerable. As in just barely.

In the end, the majority of the group voted to let the wizard live.

There is a deep social contract with tolerance and an instinctive distrust of cleverness or eloquence. If the Lord God came to England and started expounding his beliefs, you know what they'd say? They'd say 'Oh, come off it!

Never laugh at the man that asks 'stupid' questions. Just remember, when all of society thought the world was flat, a man once questioned, "What if the world was round?

Look with great forgiveness upon the weakness of others.

Love permits and even respects dissent: Authoritarianism does not. Everybody should learn the difference.