Quotes About Tolerance

I have nothing against 2 men sleeping together so long as I am not one of those 2 men.

They found it strange that these poverty-stricken halves should suffer [that is, tolerate] such injustice, and that they did not take the others by the throat or set fire to their houses.

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

Soon found there is no way to rid yourself of a disagreeable man's conversation more effectually than by not allowing him an opportunity of making a remark.

Seeing his disappointment, I hastily resolved never to come between a man and his pun again. It's worse than interfering between husband and wife.

It does your mind good to talk to people different from you.

Time partially reconciles us to anything.

Never judge someone by their relatives.

UNA DE LAS CARACTERÍSTICAS DE LA MADUREZ es la habilidad de estar en desacuerdo sin ser desagradable.

I hadn't realized that a break in a bone could be so exquisitely painful. I'd feel a greater tolerance for the the wounded after this.

but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty. -ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 1 page 22

When a man blasphemes, what do we do? Do we go and stop his mouth? No. We put our fingers into our ears to stop us hearing. This is a wise action.

When a man blasphemes, what do we do? Do we go and stop his mouth? No. We put our fingers into our ears to stop us hearing. That is a wise action.

If we put ourselves between the god and his victim we may receive blows intended for the offender. When a man blasphemes, what do we do? Do we go and stop his mouth? No. We put our fingers into our ears to stop us hearing. That is a wise action.

He forgot the saying of the elders that if a man sought for a companion who acted entirely like himself he would live in solitude.

Travelers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves.

And so Mr. Brown came to be respected even by the clan, because he trod softly on its faith.

Whether the rendezvous of separate histories will take place in a grand, harmonious concourse or be fraught with bitterness and acrimony will all depend on whether we have learned to recognize one another's presence and are ready to accord human respect to every people.

Even when there was strong disagreement, one had to remember to be discordant with respect.

The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past, fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep. —Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey In

Allah dwells in all men, even the infidel," he says.

She [Pidge Bledsoe] supposed there was something gentle in every man, even the mean ones.

Tolerance is a virtue, but tolerance coupled with passivity is a vice.

The attacks by this movement on the rights and beliefs of Muslims, Jews, immigrants, gays, lesbians, women, scholars, scientists, those they dismiss as nominal Christians, and those they brand with the curse of secular humanist, are an attack on all of us, on our values, our freedoms and ultimately our democracy. Tolerance is a virtue, but tolerance coupled with passivity is a vice.