Quotes About Tolerance

Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.

One reason we are willing to follow our fantasies down the rabbit hole of religious unity is that we have become uncomfortable with argument. Especially when it comes to religion, we desperately want everyone to get along

The ideal of religious tolerance has morphed into the straightjacket of religious agreement.

Unfortunately, we live in a world where religion seems as likely to detonate a bomb as to defuse one. So while we need idealism, we need realism even more. We need to understand religious people as they are—not just at their best but also their worst.

When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them. But, as the demonstration shows, sincere, clearheaded people see things differently, each looking through the unique lens of experience.

By accepting people you're not condoning their weakness or agreeing with their opinion; you're simply affirming their intrinsic worth.

To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.

As clearly and objectively as we think we see things, we begin to realize that others see them differently from their own apparently equally clear and objective point of view. "Where we stand depends on where we sit.

It is much more ennobling to the human spirit to let people judge themselves than to judge them. And

Instead of trying to change him, we tried to stand apart—to separate us from him—and to sense his identity, individuality, separateness, and worth.

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation.

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing.

Democracy thrived on a clash of ideas, a tolerance of viewpoints, and robust debate.

The man who seeks to perpetuate prejudice and class hatred is doing America an ill service.

Americans believed in openness. Democracy thrived on a clash of ideas, a tolerance of viewpoints, and robust debate.

Sure, I've gotten some disbelieving stares when I've tried to explain this little habit of mine to, say, a bus seatmate. I've watched a guy adjust his posture, or get up and move back several rows, even if it meant he now sat next to someone else who was clearly on the verge of some other kind of insanity.

Intellectual liberalism was at the forefront of many forms of progress that almost everyone has come to accept, such as democracy, social insurance, religious tolerance, the abolition of slavery and judicial torture, the decline of war, and the expansion of human and civil rights.56 In many ways we are (almost) all liberals now.

Today no respectable public figure in the United States, Britain, or Western Europe can casually insult women or sling invidious stereotypes of other races or ethnic groups.

authority, and purity entails a reduction of violence. And that retraction is precisely the agenda of classical liberalism: a freedom of individuals from tribal and authoritarian force, and a tolerance of personal choices as long as they do not infringe on the autonomy and well-being of others.

My wife's nagging is like living near the airport. After a while you don't notice it any more.

What I believe in is love your neighbor as yourself and don't call him stupid because they don't agree with you politically.

Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.

If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's faults and burdens.

My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.