Quotes About Tolerance

But it did make me realize that I shouldn't go around judging people who have stringy hair, because maybe they have a very good reason for having hair like that.

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

what good is safety if she has to grow up in a world where people disappear without a trace because they pray to a different God?

True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought.

The only way to understand another culture is to assume the frame of reference of that culture.

When two people who love each other cannot come into agreement after substantial discussion, it is perfectly appropriate to agree to disagree without raining judgment down on each others' heads. For most people, there are some entrenched beliefs and opinions which will not change, regardless of persuasion or coercion.

La Natura si sta comportando con noi come quell'anziano rabbino da cui erano andati due uomini per dirimere una contesa. Ascoltato il primo, il rabbino dice: "Hai ragione". Il secondo insiste per essere ascoltato, il rabbino lo ascolta e gli dice: "Hai ragione anche tu". Allora la moglie del rabbino, che orecchiava da un'altra stanza, urla: "Ma non possono avere ragione entrambi!". Il rabbino ci pensa, annuisce, e conclude: "Anche tu hai ragione".

Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness that religions can cause.

wondered, not for the first time, how exactly Snow White had managed to live with seven men without murdering at least one of them

No need for Jesus and the Lord Buddha to fight

There's an old Jewish saying: An enemy is someone whose story you do not know. (22)

Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term "we" or "us" and at the same time decreases those labeled "you" or "them" until that category has no one left in it. - Howard Winters (115)

But not hurting people and knowing how to get along with people, ... they're different.

perhaps they will remember Chris Creed and they will find their tolerance, their compassion.

There is a French expression: "Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner." To understand all is to forgive all.

Sin embargo, había algo respecto a lo que era tajante: no toleraba a la gente que la hacía sentirse mal consigo misma.

Daisy had her own criteria for judging people. On the whole, she expected to like people she met, and on the whole, she did. It seemed to her a much pleasanter way to live than to go about looking for superficial defects such as the wrong class, or a brown face, thus eliminating a lot of delightful people from one's acquaintance.

There's some who believe it's wicked, but God made us all, and if there's some he made a little different, I daresay he had a reason for it.

We hate our friends' kids. You get completely stressed when Kyle and Lara bring their boys to our home and they put their chocolaty fingerprints over everything and nearly burst your eardrums with their incessant noise. You have to take a handful of Nurofen the minute they've gone.

We're like, do whatever. Chill out. Be gay. Be straight. I mean, what is the big deal? We're all gonna die anyway, you know? Who wants to spend their precious life hating?

We don't care, you know? We're like, do whatever. Chill out. Be gay. Be straight. I mean, what is the big deal? We're all gonna die anyway, you know? Who wants to spend their precious life hating?" I

Love is patient, love is kind.

I know when you need your space. That's why I got the beard.