Quotes About Tolerance

I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody.

I don't like people doing jokes about disabled people for no good reason, but I can still understand why they do them.

I've never really had any beef with anybody yet, so I think that's a good thing.

Every man and every nation at one time or other becomes the weak. That's why nobody should tolerate persecution, let alone extermination, as a precedent. (p581)

l'oppressione, l'orrore, i massacri erano terminati per sempre. Il mondo progredito non li avrebbe più tollerati.

Accept the differences, because they are superficial..Concentrate on the goodness in the other, rather than the difference. Yes. I knew that sounded simple, but I realized how seldom it's said. We divide ourselves in every waking moment. Blond or brunette. Blue states or red. Then we define ourselves by the divides. We do the same with love.

I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids.

none to molest them or make them afraid.

What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as they do - an extension of themselves, in fact! Even Christianity does not cure us, since one cannot feel right without assuming that the rest must be wrong. Personally I would rather feel wrong with everybody else than right all by myself: I like people different, and agree with the man who said that the worst of the human race is the number of duplicates.

The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.

we often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.

He tolerates no other enemy than one in whom nothing is to be despised and a great deal is worthy of respect!

That the other suffers must be learned; and it can never be learned completely.

Rule? Press my type on others? Dreadful. Is not my happiness precisely the sight of many who are different ?

This modernity makes us ill: whinging peace and cowardly compromise, the whole virtuous filth of the modern mentality. This tolerance and largeur of the heart that "forgives" everything because it "understands" everything is a desert wind for us. Better to live amid the ice than among modern virtues and other such southern winds!

And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water.

O meu gosto, que é provavelmente a antítese de um gosto tolerante, está longe de o poder aprovar na totalidade: em geral, aprovar não está nos meus hábitos, prefiro contradizer ou até não dizer absolutamente nada... É o que eu faço em relação a culturas inteiras, em relação a livros,- e também a cidades e paisagens.

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Christian love bears evil, but it does not tolerate it. It does penance for the sins of others, but it is not broadminded about sin. Real love involves real hatred: whoever has lost the power of moral indignation and the urge to drive the sellers from the temples has also lost a living, fervent love of Truth.

there has sprung up a disturbing indifference to truth, and a tendency to regard the useful as the true, and the impractical as the false. The man who can make up his mind when proofs are presented to him is looked upon as a bigot, and the man who ignores proofs and the search for truth is looked upon as broadminded and tolerant.

As love comes from knowledge, so hatred comes from want of knowledge. Bigotry is the fruit of ignorance.

religious leaders have agreed not to disagree and those beliefs for which some of our ancestors would have died they have melted into a spineless Humanism.

suffers fools