Quotes About Tolerance

If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

It's a muscle that everybody needs to develop: the ability to see themselves in someone else's circumstances without having to paint that person white, make that person straight, or a man.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.

Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

Don't criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes.

If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Megogong otigree" (keeping quiet means no cruelty).

Homo sum humani nil a me alienum puto.(I am a man I hold that nothing human is alien to me.)

What is done let us leave alone.

It is a good proof and test of our love if we can bear with such faults and not be shocked by them. Others, in their turn, will bear with your faults, which, if you include those of which you are not aware, must be much more numerous.