Quotes About Tolerance

The sciences are not sectarian. People do not persecute each other on account of disagreements in mathematics. Families are not divided about botany, and astronomy does not even tend to make a man hate his father and mother. It is what people do not know, that they persecute each other about. Science will bring, not a sword, but peace.

I would not wish to live in a world where I could not express my honest opinions. Men who deny to others the right of speech are not fit to live with honest men.

In the presence of the unknown, all have an equal right to think.

Being sworn at by random people was the price you paid for living in London,

As long as you don't have to see it, all good, eh?

there's one thing I 'ate, it's treating people diff'rent because of where they were born.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.

LAW 38 Think As You Like But Behave Like Others If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them. They will find a way to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.

People and their values are almost infinitely diverse, and people will never agree on many elements of social arrangements that might be subjected to uniform rules of governance. Hence, the greater the scope of strictly individual self-determination, the lesser the scope of governance, and the greater the tolerance with which people live and let live among their fellows, the more peaceful and flourishing society will be

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

It was Christianity alone that made life tolerable.

Make sure that slow learners are rewarded—or at least not punished— for expressing their deviant views and acting in odd ways.

Romans 12:18 If possible, on your part, live at peace with everyone.

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.

She was magnanimous to former opponents, never retaliating against supporters of her former husband or other adversaries, personal or official.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

I'm not okay, you're not okay—but that's okay.

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

The laws prohibiting suicide and providing punishment for any attempt at self-destruction have been repealed. The Government has seen fit to acknowledge the right of man to end an existence which may have become intolerable to him, through physical suffering or mental despair.

Let us see to it that ponderers, thinkers, feelers survive in our midst.

Why must people be hateful toward anyone who is different? Because we live in a fallen world, my girl. I'm afraid people will continue to find reasons to hate until the day Jesus returns.