Quotes About Tolerance

Pacience is an heigh vertu, certeyn.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

Most of them don't mind too much the idea of a God existing somewhere, just so long as He's indulgent.

This is why we apply the LCD Principle or Lowest Common Democracy. In short, this is social interaction based not on the best possible good, but on the least possible offense. Without saying so, the parties involved have entered into the following arrangement: What is the least we can all agree on and still get along? Of course, you can see this means no one is pleased.

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

I hate all white men, but I hate you less than any white man I have ever known.

Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.

At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

Palestine must ultimately become a state which guards the rights and interests of Moslems, Jews and Christians alike."56

The reliable presence of people who love us facilitates our perception and toleration of painful reality and enriches our lives.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

These fellow mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

We let each other be who we are," Curran said. "I don't have to like all of the things she has to do. I love her.

He seemed to shrug off the sun's rays.