Quotes About Tolerance

Tenían mucho cariño que repartir. Pero yo necesitaba cariño y tolerancia. Y de esto andaban escasos.

there because of her brilliance but only tolerated because it was clear she was one, too, on whom true Ladyhood would never be conferred.

Repelled by cruelty let us ban it from our hearts.

Sugar, she say one day when Shug home, don't you think it be nice if Celie could talk proper? Shug say, She can talk in sign language for all I care.

the only way to stop making somebody the serpent is for everybody to accept everybody else as a child of God

we did not vilify all white men when mcveigh bombed oklahoma. america did not give out his family's addresses or where he went to church. or blame the bible or pat robertson.

You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? 'Never complain, never explain.

Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong.

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

Ashoka supplemented this general moral and political principle by a dialectical argument based on enlightened self-interest: 'For he who does reverence to his own sect while disparaging the sects of others wholly from attachment to his own sect, in reality inflicts, by such conduct, the severest injury on his own sect.

PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

People are alike in many ways. In other ways, people are different. These differences are called diversity. Without diversity, everyone would be exactly the same and that would make the world a very boring place. Accept each infant or child as someone special.

You would've thought the more pain you suffered, the more you'd get used to it, but it was the other way around.

Friends are people one pretends to like in order to make life bearable.

I saw two Northmen. One was reading a book.' 'Really? A book?' Friendly shrugged. 'There are readers everywhere.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees" Victor Hugo

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.

As a school nurse, she had always modeled herself on Mary Poppins, aiming for an air of good-tempered calm, self-assurance, a tolerance for play, but an expectation that the medicine would go down along with the spoonful of sugar. If the kids thought it was possible she might break into song and shoot fireworks from the tip of her umbrella, that was all right with her. Such

There is the True Knot, who live on the road and are in much the same line of work as myself. I leave them be and they are glad to return the favor.

The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.

The founder of the Persian Empire, Cyrus the Great, possessed a remarkably cosmopolitan vision. Rather than annihilate or enslave his opponents, Cyrus envisioned a multinational empire where foreign cultures were to be respected and preserved, albeit under Persian supervision. This

I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.

We've got to give people room to have a bad day.