Quotes About Tolerance

To this husband of hers she made the last concession of married life, which is more complete, more irrevocable, than the first—she listened to him. She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance—actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage.

way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses

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The thing to do is to forget about the heat,' said Tom impatiently. 'You make it ten times worse by crabbing about it.

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on.

She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance—actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage.

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

Até hoje evito cometer grandes equívocos lembrando, como meu pai orgulhosamente sugeriu e eu orgulhosamente repito, que o senso fundamental de decência é distribuído de forma desigual no nascimento. E, após gabar-me assim da minha tolerância, devo confessar que ela tem limites. Um comportamento pode ser edificado na pedra ou nos pântanos mais lamacentos, mas a partir de certo ponto eu não me importo mais.

Seated in a car full of women, squashed between his six-foot landlady and Sybil Underwood, having to listen to them talk nonstop all the way to Atlanta and back, was too much for him to bear.

On ne peut reprocher à quelqu'un d'être ce qu'il est.

But looking under the covers of Indian democracy one sees a more complex and troubling reality. In recent decades, India has become something quite different from the picture in the hearts of its admirers. Not that it is less democratic: in important ways it has become more democratic. But it has become less tolerant, less secular, less law-abiding, less liberal. And these two trends—democratization and illiberalism—are directly related.

War and organized violence have declined dramatically over the last two decades.

No dejemos que el odio amargue nuestras vidas.

In this world we're all travelers on the same ship that has set sail from one unknown port en route to another equally foreign to us; we should treat each other, therefore, with the friendliness due to fellow travelers.

arte inmoral de suprimir al otro en lugar de intentar ponerse en su lugar)…

La única libertad que merece ese nombre es la de buscar nuestro propio bien, por nuestro camino propio, en tanto no privemos a los demás del suyo o les impidamos esforzarse por conseguirlo. Cada uno es el guardián natural de su propia salud, sea física, mental o espiritual. La humanidad sale más gananciosa consintiendo a cada cual vivir a su manera que obligándole a vivir a la manera de los demás» (John Stuart Mill, Sobre la libertad).

Bernard Shaw solía decir: «No siempre hagas a los demás lo que desees que te hagan a ti: ellos pueden tener gustos diferentes.»

sin duda sería estupendo que llegásemos a ser iguales

las religiones se hacen tolerantes cuando se debilitan, cuando pierden poder terrenal. Mientras controlan los hilos de la política y la economía y tienen un brazo secular para poder hacer cumplir sus preceptos, rara vez dan muestras de tolerancia. Este sentimiento aparece cuando los que controlan la práctica de una creencia tienen que ser aceptados, no cuando tienen que aceptar. Éste es un fenómeno que ocurre en casi todas las religiones.

Quienes son respetables son las personas, no las creencias. Las opiniones no son todas respetables. Si así hubiese sido, la humanidad no habría podido avanzar un solo paso.

Para unos, ser bueno significará ser resignado y paciente, pero otros llamarán bueno a la persona emprendedora, original, que no se acobarda a la hora de decir lo que piensa aunque pueda molestar a alguien.

Cada vez que te sientas inclinado a criticar a alguien- me dijo- ten presente que no todo el mundo ha tenido tus ventajas.

Either we learn to live together and embrace the complexity of life, or we will end up with fascism again and destroy ourselves.