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Quotes About Tolerance

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.
~ Aristotle
When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish.
~ Abhijit Naskar
To hate someone just because he doesn't presume like you is big blunder.
~ M.H. Rakib
Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
~ Barry O'Farrell
There is only one caste... the caste of humanity. There is only one religion... the religion of love. There is only one language... the language of the heart.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.
~ Lemmy Kilmister
I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
~ Chief Joseph
The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.
~ Wade Davis
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
~ J. K. Rowling
As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance.
~ Queen Noor of Jordan
Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.
~ Dalai Lama
Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path
~ Sivananda
Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
~ Anne McCaffrey
The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.
~ Lawrence Kushner
It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.
~ Wayne Dyer
The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.
~ Zhuangzi
Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.
~ Nursultan Nazarbayev
Don't get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.
~ Deepak Chopra
If we want spiritual development, the practice of patience is essential.
~ Dalai Lama
If you wish to live in peace and harmony with others, you must learn to discipline yourself in many ways.
~ Thomas a Kempis
I think in many ways narrow minded-attitudes lead to extreme thinking.
~ Dalai Lama