Quotes About Tolerance

A patriot will admit there may be honest men, and that honest men may differ.

Patience wins the race.

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Don't need to love someone to be compassionate.

We yearn to find things that are common to all human beings, around which we can come together. But underlying that yearning is the desire for people to be the same, to be the same as us, to affirm our way of seeing things. And that's the trap.

Adolf Hitler had also wanted a one-people event. His way of doing it was to eliminate diversity. He created hundreds of places like Auschwitz and Birkenau where he could destroy diversity and create one people who looked the same, thought the same, lived the same. But he couldn't do it. Because the one thing we ultimately have in common is that we're all different.

When you see people in terms of race or religion, that's when the trouble starts. I don't understand why people work so hard at pointing out our differences; we should be celebrating the things we have in common.

Take it with a grin of salt.

The thinking man often rebuked his girlfriend because of her extravagance. Once he discovered four pairs of shoes in her room. "I also have four different kinds of feet," she excused herself. The thinking man laughed and asked: "So what do you do, when one pair is worn out?" At that, she realized he was not yet quite in the picture and said, "I made a mistake, I have five different kinds of feet." With that the thinking man was finally in the picture.

A criatura humana aguenta tudo: é o principal defeito que tem. Pode prestar-se a uma porção de coisas. E é muito difícil de destruir.

Ui: I don't muzzle the animal that does my heavy lifting. I overlook the foibles of my employees.

We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick fall across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance.

To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, 'Look at my two noble friends -- they are dumb, but they are loyal.' I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.

Reasonable people can disagree... and it makes them no less American.

I think I showed my restraint by not pulling her hair out by the roots.

Your sweetness is so much stronger than their hate.

bigotry practiced by those outside the race was harmful enough without bigotry being meted out by those within.

We have these cultural norms, and we allow people to say ugly things. We don't have to like it, we don't have to invite them to our dinner parties, but you should let them say it.

Only the interactions of the senses and sense objects give cold,heat,pleasure and pain. These are temporary, appearing and disappearing; therefore learn to tolerate without being disturbed (2.14)

Self-pity, unaccountability and hypocrisy were recast as virtues and renamed forgiveness, solidarity and tolerance.

The answer is not to turn inward, to retreat into competing factions, distrusting those who don't look like you or worship the way you do or don't get their news from the same source as you do. We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.

Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire, destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war.

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .