Quotes About Tolerance

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind.

All too often, when people don't know where they are, have jet lag, don't speak the language, and can't figure out the money or maintain intestinal regularity, they get hostile.

You don't have to be good at something to be liked.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

As my mother once said to me, 'They're quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.

I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews and I'm married to a Muslim. So I won't lose out on a technicality.

God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.

Rodney the ghoul?...Oh, I liked him. He didn't get angry no matter how many times my mother insulted him.

We don't like to say that [my wife was Jewish] because her mother was Jewish, which means she was Jewish. So don't imply that my wife was a shikse.

My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.

My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

You will never change what you tolerate.

Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.

Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.