Quotes About Tolerance

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

As a people, I am afraid, we tend too often to brush aside with impatience, sometimes with discourtesy, customs and points of view which are alien to us.

The danger lies in the possibility that we will not accept the person as he is but try to make him over according to our own ideas.

The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who hold to the original traditions of our nation. To change these traditions by changing our traditional attitude toward public education would be harmful, I think, to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area.

Oh, well," yawned Vernon, "we all know that it's you Christians who go in for whips and tortures and burnings alive. Poor degraded sensualists like myself believe in the motto 'Live and let live.

To tolerate existence, we lie, and we lie above all to ourselves. Sometimes we tell ourselves lovely tales, sometimes petty lies. Falsehoods protect us, mitigate suffering, allow us to avoid the terrifying moment of serious reflection, they dilute the horrors of our time, they even save us from ourselves.

There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them

Truly tolerant people are hard to offend.

Secondly, we have to learn that people must be informed. A free press is the greatest guarantee of a free society. We must keep it alive. We have to tolerate obnoxious opinions. But I don't want only opinions. I want facts.

hospitality, cosmopolitanism, and tolerance.

It is not a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.

In general, if you can't imagine how anyone could hold the view you are attacking, you probably just don't understand it yet.

No culture should be romanticized or denigrated: like all others, Indians should be understood and evaluated on their own terms

the deep division that exists in the human race, regardless of any other more obvious distinction, between those for whom books are an obsession, and those who are prepared, good-humouredly enough, to tolerate their existence.

She saw that supreme dignity - and love - lay in tolerance.

But don't hunt for dissonance: There is no such thing; People dance to all tunes.

A broad-minded person always appreciates the positive outlook, the narrow-minded people often admire only own outfits and looks.

A husband who gets awake in life cannot tolerate much the tantrums of his wife and soon they will either alienate or live largely separate without talking to each other under the same roof.

A person who believes actually in humanity does not talk about religious beliefs , rituals and allied activity.

An effective way to stay often happy and in cordial relationship with many people specially stupids around is to never display own emotion to say them the hard truths or that really matters in life, but only and always that what they want to hear especially things foolish and/or remain selfish.

Talk of humanity does not include the language of religion, caste, creed and related activity.

The lasting relationship between a couple even after a couple of years of their marriage, is only a proof that a husband is either a tolerant or an ignorant of his wife.