Quotes About Tolerance

She did not especially appreciate children either, but could be kind to them when they were silent.

Just because two men live together, it doesn't mean it's depravity.

I say, if it's love, the Lord won't mind. There's enough hate in the world.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god; it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg"—

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow.

Make beard, not war.

BREVITY. The quality that makes cigarettes, speeches, love affairs and ocean voyages bearable.

I mean, if we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it ill behooves any of us To find fault with the rest of us.

Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter, but do not admit the excuses, except in courtesy; as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon, the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.

Paingry: A state of anger caused by long-term pain.

Religions are like farts — yours is good but everyone else's stinks.

A fly does not mind dying in coconut cream.

Don't let your hatred gossip.

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of every body.

I also came to see that the price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Burn, burn all the books which teach hatred! Exalt labor and love! Let us create rational human beings, capable of crushing under foot the futile magnificence of barbaric glories, and of resisting those blood ambitions of nationalism and imperialism which have crushed their brothers.

No one is born hating another person... People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

We cannot heal when hate persists.

End discrimination. Hate everybody.

This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

— My sexual orientation? Horizontal, usually. — I can't even think straight. — Let's get one thing straight, I'm not. — Straight But Not Narrow — Closets are for clothes. — I'm not a lesbian but my girlfriend is. — I'm not gay but my boyfriend is. — Equal rights are not special rights. — Homophobia is a social disease. — My sexual preference is often.

It is difficult to be good-natured in a hot day. Intense heat destroys even the temper of steel, and why not that of flesh and blood?

Then there's the one about the fellow who complained of the excessive heat the other day, when the thermometer read 90. "It isn't hot, brother," comforted a war correspondent just back from Ethiopia, "until the chair gets up when you do!"