Quotes About Tolerance

When you love somebody, or something, it's amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.

Neither de Gaulle nor anyone else was keen to admit that much of France had not only tolerated anti-Semitism and xenophobia but actually anticipated German wishes in identifying and deporting Jews. (Moorehead, 2011, 305)

When the Marchese de Caracciolo wrote to the King of Naples that in England he had discovered a country of '22 religions and two sauces', these were not words of praise.

We are not designed to be critical of others or ourselves; we think ill of others only out of fear.

Other people's judgements are the mosquitoes of being human.

I know how closely most of us tend to hold on to whatever cache of patience we've managed to amass over a lifetime and I appreciate your squandering some of your cherished stash here.

Hate is a useless emotion.

Booker T. once said, "I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

As long as our voiced were in harmony, it didn't matter that our accents were at war.

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

Some one recently inquired as to why the religious schools do not teach the people how to tolerate differences of opinion and to cooperate for the common good. This, however, is the thing which these institutions have refused to do.

That we can act in the world not as we are "in reality" is, for Gurov, a very good thing. Our public life, "which was visible to everybody who needed to know about it, but was full of conditional truth and conditional deceit" was balanced by a private life, which was hidden from others and in which we are sincere. Doubleness is not duplicity. It is precisely the sincerity of what is hidden that makes tolerance so necessary and moral condemnation so difficult.

Remember where you are, Trooper," Chief Marshall reminded him. "This is Provincetown. Residents let their freak flag fly around here. If we investigated everyone's sexual predilections around town, Lord knows what else we'd find.

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored

Enough, both of you,' Clary said. 'You can't be complete jerks to each other forever, you know.' Technically,' said Simon, 'I can.' Jace made an inelegant noise; after a moment Clary realized that he was trying not to laugh, and only semi-succeeding.

It's not funny, Jace," Alec interrupted, starting to his feet. "Are you just going to let her stand there and call me names?" "Yes," Jace said kindly. "It'll do you good-- try to think of it as endurance training.

It is consummate folly to tolerate every variety of opinion, on every topic, out of devotion to an abstract "liberty"; for opinion soon finds its expression in action, and the fanatics whom we tolerated will not tolerate us when they have power.

I want a kinder, gentler nation.

Perhaps only the strong survive, but only the tolerant thrive.

Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.

And I hope to stand for a new harmony, a greater tolerance. We've come far, but I think we need a new harmony among the races in our country. And we're on a journey into a new century, and we've got to leave that tired old baggage of bigotry behind.

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.