Quotes About Tolerance

Bütün iyili?ine ra?men ne kadar anlay??s?z..." dedi. Sonra yüksek sesle ilave etti "Mü?kül vaziyette kalan bir insan için böyle hükümler verilir mi? As?l iyilik tan?mad?klar?m?za yapt???m?z iyiliktir; halbuki biz bütün hüsnüniyetimizi dostlar?m?za saklay?p bunlar?n d???nda kalanlar? bir ç?rp?da ve k?sa bir hükümle fena addediyoruz!...

Now you must know that in the Holy Shades no religious animosities exist. Each ghost has his own peculiar liking, and generally continues attached to what he loved most during his sojourn on earth, but he never considers it necessary to use bad language to the other ghosts if they should be of a different way of thinking; and such terms as vulgar Protestant and superstitious Papist are never heard amongst us.

They say how long a minute is essentially depends on which side of the bathroom door you are! Those inside say, "Just a minute, I'm coming." That one minute, for the person outside, is an eternity!

It takes a little extra intelligence for a person to look beyond what's available in his culture.

Let's cool it, brothers.

One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding

One day, I remember, a dirty glass of water was on a counter and Mr. Muhammad put a clean glass of water beside it. "You want to know how to spread my teachings?" he said, and he pointed to the glasses of water. "Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water," he said, "just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better.

The next day I was in my car driving along the freeway when at a red light another car pulled alongside. A white woman was driving and on the passenger's side, next to me, was a white man. Malcolm X! he called out--and when I looked, he stuck his hand out of his car, across at me, grinning. Do you mind shaking hands with a white man? Imagine that! Just as the traffic light turned green, I told him, I don't mind shaking hands with human beings. Are you one?

Books, like buildings, like works of art, like songs and sometimes even like the languages of prayers, often tell stories about the complexities of tolerance and cultural identity, complexities that ideological purists deny, both as an immediate reality and as a future possibility.

Die Menschen sind für einander geboren. Also belehre oder dulde sie!

The younger religions are usually the most violent, which means less tolerant of those who don't quack exactly as they do.

No hay que censurar a los dioses porque no yerran en nada, ni contra su voluntad ni a propósito. Tampoco a los hombres, porque en nada yerran si no es contra su voluntad. En conclusión no hay que censurar a nadie.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

When you run up against someone else's shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible? No. Then don't ask the impossible. There have to be shameless people in the world. This is one of them. The same for someone vicious or untrustworthy, or with any other defect. Remembering that the whole world class has to exist will make you more tolerant of its members.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

You have the power within you to endure anything, for your mere opinion can render it tolerable, perhaps even acceptable, by regarding it as an opportunity for enlightenment or a matter of duty.

In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them.

Don't be irritated at people's smell or bad breath. What's the point? With that mouth, with those armpits, they're going to produce that odor. —But they have a brain! Can't they figure it out? Can't they recognize the problem? So you have a brain as well. Good for you. Then use your logic to awaken his. Show him. Make him realize it. If he'll listen, then you'll have solved the problem. Without anger.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

Other people's mistakes? Leave them to their makers.

When you are offended at any man's fault, immediately turn to yourself and reflect in what manner you yourself have erred:

Y recuerda que has de tratarles como a hombres, porque son tan humanos como tú y por tanto te resultan tan imprescindibles como la mandíbula inferior lo es para la superior.

A prudent governor will not roughly oppose even the superstitions of his people; and though he may wish they were wiser, he will know that he cannot make them so by offending their prejudices.