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Quotes About Tolerance

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.
~ Wayne Dyer
You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.
~ Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Even if somebody disagrees with you, their life is still valuable.
~ Benjamin Carson
My life goal is not to ruin anyone's existence. I'm a comic.
~ Rosie O'Donnell
Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay, but it's all good.' It's kind of like going to Paris when you don't know the language some Americans get into trouble over there, but I'm just like, 'Sorry, I don't speak French.'
~ Dylan McDermott
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
~ Dylan Thomas
Kindness is not always about saying yes or giving out compliments. But in whatever way it's expressed, kindness never undermines or denigrates. Its message is always, Whatever you're going through right now, it's all right to be you—to be who you are.
~ Dzogchen Ponlop
Persist not in calling attention to a matter calculated to cause division.—Patimokkha. Dwell together in mutual love.—Brahmanadhammika-sutta.
~ E. Haldeman-Julius
The greatest power is often simple patience.
~ E. Joseph Cossman
Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed"--because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk
~ E. Lockhart
Be a little kinder than you have to." We are all silenced by that. It seems impossible to argue with. Then Johnny says, "Never eat anything bigger than your ass.
~ E. Lockhart
I do not suffer fools
~ E. Lockhart
Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right.
~ E. Lockhart
Always be a little nicer than you have to be
~ E. Lockhart
Be a little kinder than you have to." ? E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
~ E. Lockhart
Suffer. You could say it means to endure, but that's not exactly right
~ E. Lockhart
Be a little kinder - Mirren
~ E. Lockhart
Be a little kinder than you have to
~ E. Lockhart
Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three.
~ E. M. Forster
And think how he has been brought up-, free from all the superstition and ignorance that lead men to hate one another in the name of God.
~ E. M. Forster
Napoleon's emancipation of the Jews had a number of unforeseen consequences as well. He got his first inkling of what they were when he passed through Strasbourg on his way back to Paris after the battle of Jena. The citizens of Strasbourg, who now had to accept the Jews, who up to that time had been merely tolerated as resident aliens, as their equals, complained to Napoleon that the Jews used their new-found status as citizen to cheat Strasbourg's Christian population.
~ E. Michael Jones
You have taught them to think differently. That is how we beat the bigotry. Class by class. Year by Year
~ E. R. Braithwaite
Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment.
~ E.D.E.N. Southworth