Quotes About Tolerance

Ancient is this [saying], O Atula, It is not just of today: They find fault in one sitting silently, They find fault in one speaking much, They find fault in one speaking moderately. No one in this world is not found at fault.

Patient endurance is the supreme austerity.

There is no need to ask which is the toughest or most tolerable regime, for it's within each of them that liberating and enslaving forces confront each other. (…) There is no need for fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.

Bear gifts if you can't bear anything else.

So you swallow your disappointment and say okay.

Las Chicas Enrolladas nunca se enfadan; solo sonríen de manera disgustada pero cariñosa y dejan que sus hombres hagan lo que ellos quieran.

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, Hate generalizes, love specifies. That's what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies.

A paper chain can be done when it hits a certain number of links. But tolerance is a project you always have to keep working at.

Why is it so hard to understand that we have to find a way to live together?

As an animal lover, I never blame any living creature for doing what's in its nature.

If I had to watch Matt take one more bite of that veggie patty, I would have popped a blood vessel.

The time we as parents and educators spend trying to teach our children social tolerance, acceptance, and etiquette would be much better invested in cultivating a connection with them. Children nurtured in traditional hierarchies of attachment are not nearly as susceptible to the spontaneous forces of tribalization. The social values we wish to inculcate can be transmitted only across existing lines of attachment.

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

Hatred is a failure of imagination.' Graham Greene, 'The Power and the Glory'.

But as my mother always said: You never know what's cooking in someone else's pot.

Wharlest Jackson used to ask: 'How can we change the white man's heart? How can we make him see that we're all the same inside?

the woman he alternately loved and tolerated.

If we only love those who agree with us, we are in fact not loving others at all; we are only loving the (assumed) "rightness" of our own ideas!

The difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that you can explain a conviction without getting angry.

It is the triumph of reason to get on well with those who possess none

A wise man once told me- he's a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or a Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic of his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a ration, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic of his own religion

It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.

You can respect a man's rights or opinions without knowing the man at all. But you can only respect the man himself when you find something in him that's worthy of the word.