Quotes About Tolerance

You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.

The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner!

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

You cannot hate a people and reach a people at the same time.

The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.

Make 2012 the year that you were nice.. because people don't like not nice people.. so be nice.. all the time!

We must never allow September 11th to become a time for protest and division. Instead, this day must remain a time for promoting peace and mutual respect.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.

This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.

It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.

Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand.

You prefer her faults to other people's perfection.

And so you prefer her faults to other people's perfections?

What can't be cured must be endured," said I

but if I hate the sins I love the sinner

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.

What's the point of the war? Why, oh why can't people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction?

Er bestaat geen grotere vijandschap op de wereld dan tussen Duitsers en joden.

Everyone is born equal; we all come into the world helpless and innocent. We all breathe the same air, and many of us believe in the same God. And yet … and yet, to many people this one small difference is a huge one! It's huge because many people have never realized what the difference is, for if they had they would have discovered long ago that there's actually no difference at all!

There is a saying that, paper is more patient than man.

Paper is more patient than people.