Quotes About Tolerance

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

Freedom of thought and the right to private judgement, in matters of conscience, driven from every corner of the earth, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum. Let us cherish the noble guests, and shelter them under the wings of universal toleration.

Besides so long as a man has not been actually killed he is our fellow-creature, though perhaps a very unpleasant one.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.

I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

In wars between cultures, culture loses.

If people are busy living out myths you don't like, leave them to it.

The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.

I saw a bunch of the weirdest, oddest people I had ever met in my life, who thought different, and acted different, and even made love different. And they made me laugh, and get angry, and be happy, and be sad, and excited, and even fall in love a little myself." He glanced up at the sphere of the wrestling arena aloft in the bar. "And they didn't seem so weird or strange anymore.

Tarzan,' I said, 'if my old lady wants to fuck a sheep with a dildo strapped to her nose, that is largely her concern, very secondarily mine, and not yours at all. She can fuck anything she wants—with the possible exception of you.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

What we cannot cure we must endure.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Little is taught by contest or dispute, everything by sympathy and love.

You must stand up for everyone's right to be who they are— otherwise you may find one day that it is you who is singled out, who is seen as different, and then there will be no one to defend you." After

We can help people a great deal by thinking about them positively and developing metta towards them. And sometimes we can help people just by keeping out of their way – or rather by not getting in their way. Sometimes people need space, and we help them most by giving it to them, or at least not taking it from them.

People all around the world look different, they wear different kinds of clothes, prepare their food differently and speak different languages, but their hearts beat for the same emotions. This is the one and only universal human connection.

If you tolerate the injustice done to you and pardon the perpetrator, the hatred will be transformed into affinity and love.

At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.

And part of being American is respecting all people's right to be whatever they want to be and at the same time respecting your own right to bitch about it, as long as you're educated and can reason your way through your bitching.

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.