Quotes About Tolerance

Our religions are much more similar than they are different.

We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not.

We ignore the similarities between the religious extremism and ethno-nationalism at our peril.

We live in a society where you may not like everything that is happening around you. However, just because you don't like it doesn't mean it is wrong. Similarly, just because you dislike something, you don't have to keep talking about it or instigating people against it.

There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state.

Memoirs of the North Africa campaign attest that, fierce and brutal as much of the fighting was, relations between individual enemies retained a quality of forbearance that seems, today, almost impossible to imagine. This

Si la simpatía de los amigos no altera los hechos, por lo menos los hace más soportables.

Well then, all I can say to you on the subject is that God made us all, and he made us as we are. Evan and I no more chose our sexual orientation than you chose yours." "You're quite right, I suppose. I didn't choose to be heterosexual, I just was." "And there you have it in a nutshell." Manolo

If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.

Anger is effortless. Kindness is hard. Try to exert yourself.

Indeed, as I made my critique, the problem seemed to me not that there are differences but rather how we value these differences.

Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan.

Patience is everything. RAINER MARIA RILKE

Who do you think you are, Julius Shakespeare?" The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival. He also referred to me as Miss Brown-Nose-in-a-Book and occasionally as Miss Emily-Big-Head-Diction. He meant Dickinson, but again, there are things you let go by.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others."21

to hold opposing ideas in my head without conflict.

Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel; it is merely individuals who exert their will on others.

We accepted our situation meekly. How quickly we became prisoners, how quickly we gave up our freedom, how quickly we tolerated the loss of that freedom, like a child being abused, in silence. In this world, there were no individual demands, and asking permission for everything was infantilizing. So we began to understand our students, who had never been able to do anything on their own.

Adult children of toxic parent have an especially difficult time with their anger because they grew up in families where emotional expression was discouraged. Anger was something only parents had the privilege of displaying. Most children of toxic parents develop a high tolerance of mistreatment. You may have only a vague awareness that anything out of the ordinary happened to you as a child. Chances are, you don't even know how angry you really are.

The physical and emotional distress that result from incurring the misogynist's displeasure can be so painful that women will do virtually anything to avoid it, including tolerate their partner's irrational behavior.

Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.

The really important thing is not to reject anything.

Magnus didn't understand the Germans' special hatred for Jewish people. They were just people, after all.

I felt a surge of anger and for a moment I thought I would not tell him what I knew. But then I thought that it was unkind to punish him for something he cannot help. It is not his fault that he does not see things the way I do.