Quotes About Tolerance

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

I believe in using words, not fists.

One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing, and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Patient endurance attends to all things.

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.

People can bear anything.

That which is horrifying to you don't do to anybody else.

At any rate, you can bear it for a quarter of an hour!

An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

What is the test of good manners? Being able to bear patiently with bad ones.

A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it.

Since my little daughter is only half Jewish, would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist?

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason.