Quotes About Tolerance

Should people who fall in love for the first time be made to wear badges? The answer, of course, is yes although I will not go into all the reasons. One or two will suffice. The wearing of a love badge might remind crusty and intolerant old fogies that they too were in love and it might make us all more tolerant of a disorder from which no one at all is immune.

I think everyone always has time to suffer.

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

J)ust because your version of normal isn't the same as someone else's version doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you.

to have beliefs different from ours.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

Book-burners try to destroy ideas that differ from their own. Reading does the opposite. It encourages doubt... reading releases you from the limits of yourself.

Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.

To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human...Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.

A funny thing about adults is they will spend time with people they don't like very much if they think it might benefit them.

Anna shook her head and, for a moment, she seemed much older than before. She may have been a girl in form, but she had existed for far longer than her appearance suggested, and in that dark place she had learned wisdom and tolerance and forgiveness.

How do you explain to someone who thinks you're the devil incarnate, that you're really not?

Thomas Jefferson's classic formulation: 'it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

T)here is no right not to be offended." (p. 237)

In short, when it comes to colonial America, religious persecution—in the sense of persecution both based in religion and aimed at religion—was as American as apple pie. Against this checkered backdrop, the U.S. Constitution stands as a remarkable achievement.

If we think we have found truth for ourselves, above all things, let us not impose it on one another. Let us lock upon it all the doors of consciousness. For however inspiring it may be to us, however ennobling, when once we try to impose it on another it becomes a poison.

We can't go far in morality before realizing that right is a relative thing and that those who disagree with us may be striving for it as earnestly as we are ourselves. It is the spirit that counts.

Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable; it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it.

The intermingling in the school of youth of different races, differing religions, and unlike customs creates for all a new and broader environment. Common subject matter accustoms all to a unity of outlook upon a broader horizon than is visible to the members of any group while it is isolated. The assimilative force of the American public school is eloquent testimony to the efficacy of the common and balanced appeal.

Possess your soul with patience.

You make allowances for your family. They may not seem normal to the world but they're normal to you because you've been dealing with them all your life.

...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.