Quotes About Tolerance

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

It is the law of love that rules mankind.

Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.

Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!

Your faith is measured by how well you love those who can't stand you.

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.

We must follow nonviolence and love.

Love, I have discovered, does not judge. It just is.

Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!

Love does not judge. Love promotes personal growth.

In the end, I would love [the audience] to be more open to the understanding of different types of personalities, you know?

control and to keep your hands to yourself. There are all kinds of teachers in the world just as there are all kinds of other people, and you must learn to get along with them. Maybe Mrs. Griggs doesn't understand how you feel, but you aren't always easy to understand. Did you ever think of that?

As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others.

I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth

but I had reached the point where aches and blisters were so central a feature of my existence that I ceased to notice them.

To make matters worse, somebody in our group was making the most dreadful silent farts. Fortunately, it was me, so I wasn't nearly as bothered as the others.

The country accepted it not only willingly, but almost absent-mindedly.

Where everyone stinks, no one stinks.

I may not agree with what you say, but I shall defend to the death your right to be a complete asshole.

It was one of the things you put up with: that every Saturday young males trashed your trains, broke the windows of your pubs, destroyed your cars, wreaked havoc on your town centres. I didn't buy it, but it seemed to be so.

And to the memory of my grandfather, who taught me to look up to people others looked down on, because we're not so different after all

Isn't it time we asked ourselves, are we willing to accept any behavior codified within religious or cultural practice? Is there no line to be drawn? If honor killings are okay, then why not virgin sacrifices or cannibalism or sex with children outside the church? We have perversely taken our notion of tolerance to such extremes that we've become tolerant of intolerance.

Of course, we in the West like to pat ourselves on the back and say we're more tolerant, and we are--but tolerance is not the same thing as acceptance. It just means, We think you're crazy and going to hell, but we won't kill you for it--we'll tolerate you. But you don't know who the Man in the Sky is, and we do.