Quotes About Tolerance

Holiness in Islam was inclusive rather than exclusive.

It is also necessary in both public and private life to refrain consistently and empathically from inflicting pain. To act or speak violently out of spite, chauvinism or self-interest, to impoverish, exploit or deny basic rights to anybody, and to incite hatred by denigrating others—even our enemies—is a denial of our common humanity.

cultivate an informed empathy with the suffering of all human beings—even those regarded as enemies.

compassion" derives from the Latin patiri and the Greek pathein, meaning "to suffer, undergo, or experience." So "compassion" means "to endure [something] with another person," to put ourselves in somebody else's shoes

the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

Hungry men are not known for their patience or their kindness.

Numbers people don't like being rushed, so back off.

The other important thing to understand is that as humans we see only a segment of reality in the greater cosmic scheme of things, so we are really never in a position to judge anyone or anything.

It was as if the small differences mattered more than the really big ones—like you had to recognize something before you could hate it properly. No

Sometimes, even if you know the answer, you've got to let the other person take a shot. If they feel wrong all the time, they never get the chance to feel right.

Please know I worked very hard to make sure everyone—no matter race, religion, creed, gender, or national origin—was equally maligned.

Their husbands were not attracted to the groupies because they were hotter than their wives. They were attracted to them because they were groupies. It was a hell of a lot more fun to be with somebody who thought you were perfect than it was to be with a woman who wouldn't put up with your shit.

Kids are like farts in that way. They never seem to bother the owner as much as they bother everyone else.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.