Quotes About Tolerance

You can't always change other people's minds. But you can change whether or not you listen to them, can't you?

Sì, sono ebrea», dichiara. «ma sono anche cattolica.» Dopo una breve pausa aggiunge: «E anche musulmana». «Mamie, cosa vuoi dire?» domando, tentando di impedire alla mia voce di tremare. «Non sei musulmana.» «Non è la stessa cosa? È l'umanità a creare le differenze. Ma questo non significa che non sia sempre lo stesso Dio.»

You're not Jewish." "No, I'm Catholic. And in the end, Catholicism isn't really so different. Believing in God is at the core of our faith, just like yours,

being Jewish is something to be proud of, not something to be ashamed of." "Then why do my classmates mock me?" Charlotte could see him flinch, but he answered calmly. "Because they are ignorant. And cruelty is the weapon of the ignorant.

We gotta put our heads together, and stop the violenceCause real bad boys move in silenceWhen you're in a club, you come to chill outNot watch someone's blood just spill outThat's what these other people want to seeAnother race fight endlessly

Nobody can imprison our souls unless we ourselves lock them behind the bars of narrow prejudice.

Men should be told that there is no Black and no White, for Black is White and White is Black. So my advice is this: let us not do anything that might hurt anybody anywhere in the world, for we are part of each soul, and each soul is part of us." We sat silent, nonplussed. So this was the heresy of Bab. Suddenly I heard loud sobbing, turned round and saw Asadulla, his face bathed in tears, and distorted with grief.

In America from the late 1960s on, equality came to mean not just that the law should treat everyone identically but that your beliefs about anything are equally as true as anyone else's. As the principle of absolute tolerance became axiomatic in our culture and internalized as part of our psychology—What I believe is true because I want and feel it to be true—individualism turned into rampant solipsism.

Peace,love,empathy

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.

I am urging that we should learn about people in other places, take an interest in their civilizations, their arguments, their errors, their achievements, not because that will bring us to agreement, but because it will help us get used to one another.

The story (...) suggests that we can't help caring about the traditions of "the West" because they are ours: in fact, the opposite is true. They are only ours if we care about them. A culture of liberty, tolerance, and rational inquiry: that *would* be a good idea. But these values represent choices to make, not tracks laid down by a Western destiny.

After Kelsey had been taken, she'd quickly learned that people had a finite tolerance for the suffering of others. Empathy went only so far before their personal comfort levels maxed out, and they started backing away from displays of grief.

at the end of the day, men are men. We have to kill their stupidity with kindness like only we can.

But at the end of the day, men are men. We have to kill their stupidity with kindness like only we can.

People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.

You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said. The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings.

We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.

Women in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.

We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us.

We easily forgive in our friends those faults we do not perceive.

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