Quotes About Tolerance

I don't dislike him because he's a Jew,' said Mr. Nunnery. 'One can't dismiss whole races at a time.' 'He's all right.' 'You'd hardly know he was a Jew.' 'Oh, no. Hardly at all.

One's capacity for hearing about ghastly doings lessens with age.

IT is not easy—perhaps not even desirable—to judge other people by a consistent standard. Conduct obnoxious, even unbearable, in one person may be readily tolerated in another; apparently indispensable principles of behaviour are in practice relaxed—not always with impunity—in the interests of those whose nature seems to demand an exceptional measure. That

Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states. Use your body as a tool to snap yourself into a place of sheer will, determination, and commitment. Face your challenges head on with the core belief that problems are just speed bumps on the road to your dreams. And from that place, when you take massive action—with an effective and proven strategy—you will rewrite your history.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all diff erent in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

People don't know their true tolerance for risk until they've had a real-life experience taking a significant loss.

Escribí todas aquellas cosas que ya no estaba dispuesto a aceptar en mi vida, todas las que ya no quería seguir tolerando, y todas aquellas en que aspiraba convertirme.

In every area of life, you get what you tolerate. And it's time to raise the standard.

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

Believe me, my child, that Christian ministers are never called on by God's word to insult the convictions, or even the prejudices of their brethren, and that religion is at any rate not less susceptible of urbane and courteous conduct among men than any other study which men may take up.

They don't do much good; — do they? It's better to take people as you find 'em, and then make the best of 'em. They're a queer lot; — ain't they, — the sort of people one meets about in the world?

a change in progress which would soon make it a matter of indifference whether anybody was Jew or Christian. For herself she regarded the matter not at all, except as far as it might be regarded by the world in which she wished to live.

Though she hardly knew how to explain the matter even to herself, she was sure that there was at present a general heaving-up of society on this matter, and a change in progress which would soon make it a matter of indifference whether anybody was Jew or Christian. For

Perhaps it was necessary that races doomed to live on the same soil should give way to each other, and adopt each other's pursuits.

Se misericordioso, aunque nadie haya tenido misericordia de ti

Pointing again in the direction of tolerance was the Quebec Act of 1774. Following the treaty which ended the Anglo-French wars in North America, Canada passed to the British. Yet the largest part of the population was Catholic.

God is not a Christian.

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

Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying society

Tolerance and Apathy are the last virtues of a dying society

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

men and women, both straight and gay, who don't consider sexuality in measuring the worth of another human being. These aren't radicals or weirdos, Mama. They are shop clerks and bankers and little old ladies and people who nod and smile to you when you meet them on the bus. Their attitude is neither patronizing nor pitying. And their message is so simple: Yes, you are a person. Yes, I like you. Yes, it's all right for you to like me too.

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.