Quotes About Tolerance

if I only knew how much longer we had to put up with each other's company, I'd start counting the days.

Popierius atlaiko daugiau nei žmon?s.

Why do grownups quarrel so easily, so much, and over the most idiotic things? Up till now I thought that only children squabbled and that wore off as you grew up.

It's not the fault of the Dutch that we Jews are having such a bad time.

It's all right for me to have boys as friends.

Don't condemn me, but think of me as a person who sometimes reaches the bursting point!

Surely the time will come when we are people again, and not just Jews.

What on earth can you do with such a silly, sniveling specimen of humanity?

All those Dutch people who still look down on the British, scoff at England and its government of aging lords, call the English cowards, yet hate the Germans, should be given a good shaking, the way you'd plump up a pillow. Maybe that would straighten out their jumbled brains!

No me juzgues, sino considérame simplemente como un ser que siente a veces que la copa desborda.

De todos modos no hay enemistad más grande en el mundo que entre los alemanes y los judíos.

You can either practice being right or practice being kind

It's better to be kind than to be right.

Now, if you ask me, what's going on is that we're all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another.

The Dalai Lama said that "religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.

Mercy means that we no longer constantly judge everybody's large and tiny failures, foolish hearts, dubious convictions, and inevitable bad behavior. We will never do this perfectly, but how do we do it better?

And my father, who never once in his life would have used the word 'nigger,' would smile and give an almost imperceptible laugh -- not a trace of rage on behalf of black people, not a trace of rage on behalf of me.

Make me a channel of Thy peace, that where there is hatred, let me sow love, or at least not fertilize the hate with my dainty bullshit.

Polite inclusion is the gateway drug to mercy.

Booker T. Washington said, "I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him

Isn't this planet big enough for differences?

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

Perhaps it is because my conviction is anyone may believe whatever they wish. Intolerance is a greater offense against God than holding a strange or even inconsistent belief. You have the right to worship what you wish - a pile of stones in your garden - as long as you do not injure others.

He was one of the vast numbers of people who cannot imagine themselves into the class or gender, least of all the emotions, of a different person. That is lack of vision or sensitivity, even compassion, but it is not stupidity.