Quotes About Tolerance

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in his shoes. Then when you start criticizing him, you're a mile away and he's got to run after you in his socks. - Jack Reacher

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in his shoes. Then when you start criticizing him, you're a mile away and he's got to run after you in his socks.

Being dumb wasn't a capital crime. Wasn't a crime at all, in fact. Merely a handicap.

Waiting is a skill like anything else." Jack Reacher

Waiting is a skill, just like everything else. ~Jack Reacher

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20Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel,v who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. 21I have given her timew to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.x 22So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adulteryy with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways.

As if reading his mind, Jamal-al-Din said, 'To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

Liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

Absolute tolerance is altogether impossible; the allegedly absolute tolerance turns into ferocious hatred of those who have stated clearly and most forcefully that there are unchangeable standards founded in the nature of man and the nature of things.

El odio a los judíos es como una enfermedad incurable. Bajo determinadas condiciones democráticas, acaso no florezca bien. Bajo otras condiciones, es posible incluso que parezca que muere; pero jamás desaparece del todo, ni aun en el clima ideal.

But once you allow yourself to think that there are some people, because of their race, their color, or religion, who are really not human beings you have established a justification for imposing every sort of humiliation on them.

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

It is always heartening when a fundamentalist of any religion professes a belief in evolution

Yes, as distasteful as it is, it is beneficial to talk to people who disagree with us. So if you hate conspiracy theories and run into someone who believes that we faked the moonlanding and Einstein plagiarized relativity from his mailman, don't tell him, 'You life is a cruel joke' and walk away. Have tea with him. It can broaden your style of thinking, and it's cheaper than seeing a therapist.

If the skulls of the people who have been killed in the name of God, Jesus, and Allah in religious wars and persecutions could be piled in one place, they would form an immense mountain. If we tallied the cost in human suffering for the belief in monotheism, we might not think of the other religions of the world as primitive.

Philip Yancey was dead-on when he said that some Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.79

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason...

Îngrijitorii trebuie s? se menÈ›in? spre calea spre autofocusare, indiferent de r?spunsul pe care îl primesc din partea celorlalÈ›i.

I wish creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!, You'll get used to it in time, said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.

She thought of herself, "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!

Hold your tongue, Ma!' said the young crab, a little snappishly. 'You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!

I am not about to say that what I put in my body has nothing whatsoever to do with my health, but I suddenly am surrounded by a world of health experts, and it gets tiresome. "You're eating a greasy cheeseburger, a man in your condition!" Deliver me. We'd all be a lot happier if we lived our own lives and allowed the son of a bitch down the street to live his. I just can't put it any more simply or directly than that.

I don't care. If I like somebody, I like her, and that's that." He thumped his chest and made a scowly face. "Let 'em come for me. I will stare down the mob with their pitchforks! I will make a speech about tolerance and love. I will tell them the folly of their ways! And then I will grab your hand and run like hell because, Jesus, a mob with pitchforks?