Quotes About Tolerance

is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Might

You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.

Keep in mind that everyone is doing the best they possibly can and realize that if they knew better, they'd do better—therefore, be gentle.

never trying to change others, but rather giving them the freedom to be as they are and seeing the beauty in them as is.

Junior was fundamentally free of anti-Semitism, and maintained throughout his life social, professional, and philanthropic bonds with a number of Jews. But

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

No one intervened—hardly surprising, thought Rosner, for intervention would have been intolerant—and no one thought to comfort him as he lay dying.

What a most unreasonably stubborn man," he said. "One must be more open to opposing views in this world." "You don't say." "Oh, indeed! As our late father often said, 'Toleration is good for all or it is good for non.

I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.

I grabbed my coat. We were off. Well, I grabbed my coat, waited the best part of an hour for Hanne to choose between one pair of black trousers and another virtually identical pair, had a cup of tea, approved the trousers, and then we were off.

Thou shalt prove how salt is the taste of another's bread and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

Here's how much some people dislike living Jews: they murdered 6 million of them. This fact bears repeating, as it does not come up at all in Anne Frank's writing. Readers of her diary are aware that the author was murdered in a genocide, but this does not mean that her diary is a work about genocide. If it were, it is unlikely that it would have been anywhere near as universally embraced.

I've said my patience is not infinite.

Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.

No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. — Albert Schweitzer

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

The key to really learning how to deal with difficult people is to understand that it is OK to not understand why they are the way they are.

Me?utim, onaj ko ne voli pripadnike drugih naroda, ne voli, naglasio sam, ni svoj narod, te ako kažem da ne volim strance, ja u isto vreme priznajem da živim u praznini, lišen bilo ?ije ljubavi. A onaj u kome nema ljubavi, ni podarene ni ponu?ene, taj i više nije ljudsko bi?e, jer ljubav je ono što nas definiše u sistemu prirode koju nastanjujemo.

My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard.

He loved mankind, it was people he couldn't stand.

Hillary: Live With It' is no rallying cry.