Quotes About Tolerance

One must have consideration for those less gifted than oneself.

My dear Poirot, it's not for me to dictate to you. You have a right to your own opinion, just as I have mine.

It's no use resenting a thing that you've no power to stop.

At first, I was polite. Really. I said "excuse me," I tried to squeeze through gaps, even apologized for stepping on some toes. What can I say, I'm Canadian.

I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy, because if you have people who are brainy, they are bound to be very impatient.

Well, well. I know all we medicos hand these things out freely nowadays. Nobody tells young women who can't sleep to count sheep, or get up and eat a biscuit, or write a couple of letters and then go back to bed. Instant remedies, that's what people demand nowadays. Sometimes I think it's a pity we give them to them. You've got to learn to put up with things in life. All very well to stuff a comforter into a baby's mouth to stop it crying. Can't go on doing that all a person's life.

You do not like anyone less because they have tuberculosis or some other fatal disease.

One had to humour him a little, of course. But then I always find one has to do that with men.

in King's Abbot we permit people to indulge their little idiosyncrasies freely.

Mladi ljudi pripadaju svojoj generaciji. Možemo mi misliti da mnogi njihovi potezi nisu mudri, ali moramo prihvatiti njihove odluke.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

But in today's world a separatist option does not exist; a version of this common ground is where we all, finally, must live if we are to live at all. And yet the loudest voices are the ones that deny its very existence...

You're black, I am white let's dance in the grey zone!

The hardest thing to open is a closed mind. (quoted 2017-12-30 in the Toronto Daily Star)

Han iyo fikirbaa dadka kala horee, Ha is quudhsanoo, Ha is liidin waligaa.

And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.

Do not make me into that man of hatred for whom I feel only hatred.

Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.

Sir, if someone took a Buddhist holy book and flushed it down my toilet, the first thing I would do is call a plumber!

Sometimes in life, even saints have to "hiss" to be kind. But no one needs to bite.

We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.

I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.

I don't understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it's a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it's not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it's the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other.