Quotes About Tolerance

Amos Oz, the late Jerusalemite writer, offered this droll solution: 'We should remove every stone of the Holy Sites and transport them to Scandinavia for a hundred years and not return them until everyone has learned to live together in Jerusalem.

I apply not my sword when my lash suffices nor my lash when my tongue suffices. And even if but one hair is binding me to my fellow men, I don't let it break. When they pull, I loosen, if they loosen I pull.

that, she thought, was the quiet crime of these times: if you made your conscience elastic enough, you could learn to tolerate anything and still find joy in the blossoming of flowers.

You're right, I haven't walked in your shoes. But you haven't walked in mine, either.

I shake my head. White people. "It's

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

A country that tolerates evil means- evil manners, standards of ethics-for a generation, will be so poisoned that it never will have any good end.

Picture the world with no bombs and guns.

Respect yields peace.

We become desperate if we are not patient.

I think that people should be free to to engage in any sexual practices they choose. They should draw the line at goats,though.

Love is a symbol of mutual tolerance and unbiased vision. We should meet each person with love and respect, regardless of nationality, color, or religion. Permeated by love, no one takes up arms, to kill others.

Meet everyone with utmost respect and heartfelt love.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion.

I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with me in that, from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

I wish I loved the human race;I wish I loved its silly face;I wish I liked the way it walks;I wish I liked the way it talks;And when I'm introduced to oneI wish I thought, What jolly fun!

True love is an acceptance of someone else for who they are.

Hatred can be overcome only by love.

There were so many stories about Bing's daughter living in sin. We weren't hurting anyone. We were living in love. I couldn't understand why people were trying to hurt us and hurt our families.

Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.