Quotes About Tolerance

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.

People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

I've wondered what my sexuality might be, but I've never wondered whether it was acceptable or not. Anyway, who really cares whether I'm gay or straight?

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

You mistake patience for forbearance.

When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

At Highgarden we have many spiders amongst the flowers. So long as they keep to themselves we let them spin their little webs, but if they get underfoot we step on them.

There is no shame in loving.

She was no maid; if she could look on the grey wall's scenes of slaughter, why should she avert her eyes from the sight of men and women giving pleasure to one another?

Yet there was one problem: at the age of nine-and-ten, Laenor preferred the company of squires of his own age, and was said never to have known a woman intimately, nor to have any bastards. But to this, Grand Maester Mellos was said to have remarked, "What of it? I am not fond of fish, but when fish is served, I eat it.

A man can bear most anything, if he must,

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her." (Letter, 17 June 1837)

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

It's really hard to hate someone for being different when you're too busy laughing together.

We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.

Being human means learning to see the common humanity in us all.