Quotes About Tolerance

Leftwing people find it very hard to get on with rightwing people, because they believe that they are evil. Whereas I have no problem getting on with leftwing people, because I simply believe that they are mistaken.

perhaps all the trouble in the world has, at its root, our insistence on denying others their full humanity.

I am not one of these people who wants everyone to live the way I live. What causes more trouble on our troubled earth than people like that?

If you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love.

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

Compassion gives us fresh perspective on what it means to be human, and helps us judge less harshly ourselves as well as the persons who impinge upon us.

Bruno, someday you will die of kindness, tolerance and gentleness. Well, given the options, it isn't a bad way to go.

La vérité, c'est qu'il y a une quantité incroyable de gouttes qui ne font pas déborder le vase. C'est fait pour ça.

L'odio si nutre di generalizzazioni.

Amo tutti i popoli, ma nessuna nazione. Sono un patriota, non un nazionalista." "Che differenza c'è?" "Il patriottismo è amare la propria gente; il nazionalismo è odiare gli altri.

To understand everything is to hate nothing.

Es sind die vorgefaßten Meinungen, die es den Völkern so schwer machen, einander zu verstehen, und die es ihnen so leicht machen, einander zu verachten.

Tolerance does not grow with banning what is thought to be unpalatable; it grows with arguing and talking about it; for that which is unpalatable gets discarded.

By "patriotism" I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people…

We understood nationalism to be Indian nationalism and not Hindu or Muslim or any other kind of religious or other nationalism,

Art teaches something we all need to learn, especially about people who are different from ourselves: "To see things the way they truly are, sometimes you have to look more deeply.

A human judge who viewed his soul would have condemned him, he thought; exacted some penalty; spurned him. But he felt in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament a tranquil, soothing God of intimacy & tolerance & unquenchable love, who knew to each jot & tittle everything about him but chose to focus on what was good, even childhood kindnesses that he'd forgotten.

The majority of the American people opposed military action against Syria in the latter half of 2013. Still, there is much tolerance of our constant smaller wars as many people just pretend the wars don't exist. There's no real endorsement, but also no real objection.

am quite sure that (bar one)II I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being—that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

I believe that all people should be free to believe and worship as they please. I also believe that people should be free to act in ways that I consider ethically wrong. But there is at least one important restriction on this freedom that every just society must maintain. My religious and ethical freedom does not include the right to kill other people.

With malice toward none; with charity for all.

All have validity in the present, and to call anyone wrong for using any one of them would be to reveal oneself as bereft of general knowledge and courtesy, as well as scholarship.

The shift from survival values to self-expression values is linked with increasing tolerance of diversity, an essential component of democracy.

In a pluralistic society, people should be free to do many things that others consider stupid or sinful. But tolerance toward others does not extend to allowing them to kill other people.