Quotes About Tolerance

detach ourselves from making our individual experience the criterion for our approach to others

Everyone must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.

It is never too late to give up your prejudices

I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for conforming to the laws of the land. I am but too ready to conform to them.

Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. Mrs

men of true wisdom and goodness are contented to take persons and things as they are, without complaining of their imperfections, or attempting to amend them.

I hope my friends will pardon me when I declare, I know none of them without a fault;

No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.

Pour une raison ou pour une autre, l'homme cherche le miracle, et pour l'accomplir, il pataugera dans le sang. Il se gorgera d'une débauche d'idées, il se réduira à n'être qu'une ombre, si, pour une seule seconde de sa vie, il peut fermer les yeux sur la hideur de la réalité. Il endure tout -disgrâce, humiliation, pauvreté, guerre, crime, ennui- croyant que demain quelque chose arrivera, un miracle! qui rendra la vie tolérable.

Selain berlaku adil, marilah kita juga bersifat pemaaf.

It's fairly easy to hate a racial or ethnic group in the abstract, but it's a different story when you start dealing with individuals.

I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.

Queequeg explained to me that his world was very different from ours. However, one thing he learned quickly, was that within all groups of people there are kind men and there are unkind men.

Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.

Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.

What's all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to myself—the man's a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.

I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical

see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.

It goes against my grain to yell at people.