Quotes About Tolerance

Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.

True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.

Judge not, lest ye be judged.

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.

Discord need not be an impediment. Differences can bring strength.

it stung, too, knowing that it was easier for his father to erase his only son's existence than it was for him to tolerate the disappointment of who his son really was.

Hate is hate, no matter who it's coming from.

Nice is good. It doesn't sound exciting, but think about it. I think Mr. Perfect would be kind to kids and animals, help old ladies across the street, not insult you when your opinion is different from his. Being nice is so important it's close to being number one.

The fact is we all "went flat," we were deadened. Discomforts and indignities, our own or others', that would have enraged us a short time before we now accepted resignedly with a shrug of the shoulders.

Whoever is free from prejudice should be ready to face misunderstanding.

So many think we must share the same beliefs to get along. In my experience, sharing the same fear is a far more effective strategy.

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.

The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.

Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.