Quotes About Tolerance

I hate how old people get in my way when I'm swimming. You're trying to get into the zone and normally, if there's someone faster than you, you get out of the way, but old people don't; they're like, you can go round me. I give a little tut when I pass them.

I do believe that people of all religions have a right to build edifices or structures or places of religious worship or study where the community allows them to do it under zoning laws and that sort of thing, and that we don't want to turn an act of hate against us by extremists into an act of intolerance for people of religious faith.

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is, who find the least fault.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

Better to accept whatever happens.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

When I was very young, I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good, and equally good. That, however, was really laziness. Now, thank goodness, I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.

A well-established village in New England or the northern Middle-West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

We often forgive those who bore us, but can't forgive those whom we bore.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.

We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles.

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking, he is not bigoted about it.

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.

In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.