Quotes About Tolerance

It is not for me to enforce my morals on others.

Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us.

When you seek to destroy somebody, all you do is empower them, because they feel like, 'you see? They don't want us to have our rights to feel the way we want to feel.' And they get more and more emboldened and more and more empowered.

It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.

I think for me, as a gay person, I can convince a lot more people to be for gay marriage by not screaming at them and berating them and embarrassing them and belittling them, but by showing them that we're all exactly the same.

The more people are exposed to the same thing, the more it seems acceptable.

Our country needs more people who listen, think for themselves, and treat each other with respect.

I think Mormons are good, moral people, but they're not part of Christianity.

The most important thing is not to be dogmatic but flexible and consistent.

You know, my mother had a rule which was 'people are just people.'

I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.

Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergartner.

He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense.

I had not yet learned that one cannot really be superior without humility and tolerance and human understanding. I did not yet know that in order to belong to a rare and higher breed one must first develop the true power and talent of selfless immolation.

I don't know if people have gotten ruder or if my tolerance level has declined.

it is not enough to tolerate dissent: sometimes you have to demand it. Galvin

There is good evidence that Aborigines are genetically insulin resistant,94 so that some of their metabolic traits 'are associated with being Aboriginal (mild impairment of glucose tolerance, hyperinsulinemia and elevated total and VLDL [very low density lipoprotein] triglycerides)'.95 In such a population, replacing ancestral food choices with the 'displacing foods of modern commerce' must predictably lead to high rates of T2DM.

Henry Dobbins made the washing motion with his hands. You're right, he said. All you can do is be nice. Treat them decent, you know?

That we not become prejudiced against those are prejudiced, or whose prejudices. May no be our own.

What's really ugly is judging others based on how they look.

I tell you, the one thing I hate is an absolutist. I hate absolutist ideologies, I hate absolutist aesthetics, I hate absolutist theologies, they're the burden and bane of this world.

men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time.

i am the most even-tempered man i know,' clark protested. 'right, no one's ever lived long enough for you to get really mad. they're dead by the time you're mildly annoyed.

Behaving as if you are better than others shows a lack of regard for other people.