Quotes About Tolerance

This is for equality ... men and women ... blacks and whites ... jews and arabs ... oriental-occidental ... dreamers and the blind ... brilliant and the dumb ... all equal because we have decided ... they are equal ... it's a good system ...

What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth and the elimination of that fanatic devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride, which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife.

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.

Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. This again is due to the ignorance of those concerned, not so much in their own, as in their mutual fields.

I am not going to kill sin by killing the sinners; I am not going to wage war against evildoers and infidels. I shall preach love, and I shall love; I shall preach concord, and shall practice brotherly love toward everyone in the world.

They don't trust me. They hate the Irish and the Jews and the Chinese and the Italians, and God knows who all, for coming to America too late. They hate the French and the Mormons on general principles. And they hate the Indians for being in America too early. Who the hell do they like?

Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're really in favor of free speech, then you're in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you're not in favor of free speech.

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

You fall in love with someone, and part of what you love about him are the differences between you; and then you get married and the differences start to drive you crazy.

When you try to make somebody feel stupid when they ask a question, you're the stupid one.

If you look for it, you can find something good about anybody.

Knowledge, and truth, save us from chaos." His tone was quiet, reasonable. And made her want to bite him. "Tempering them with compassion and tolerance makes us human. Without those things, fanatics feed on fear and ignorance.

When are you going to stop being annoyed

A place it was—or was meant to be—for prayer and good works and contemplation. But there are always some, aren't there, who believe what they believe is the only. And will do whatever it takes to force that belief on all. For me, those who would kill and burn and enslave in the name of a god, well, they don't hear the god they claim to worship. Or the god is a false and cruel one.

Nature's a bitch and she barely tolerates us.

Compassion - she was allowed to feel compassion, but not anger.

Prejudice and fear are never clear-sighted.

Knowledge, and truth, save us from chaos." His tone was quiet, reasonable. And made her want to bite him. "Tempering them with compassion and tolerance makes us human. Without those things, fanatics feed on fear and ignorance. The way they did in Salem, three hundred years ago.

In other words, the more differentiated, relatively developed societies have cultivated a comparatively high tolerance for highly individualised ways of further developing the existing art canon; this facilitates experimentation and the breaching of stale conventions and can thus help to enrich the artistic pleasures available through seeing and hearing.

If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all.

And in our culture today, tolerance no longer means to put up with something you believe to be false (after all, you don't tolerate things you agree with). Tolerance now means that you're supposed to accept every belief as true!

religious pluralism—the belief that all religions are true.

More people have died in the name of religion than have ever died of cancer. And we try to cure cancer... What makes us take up arms against those who pray to the same God with different words?

What is it about our specific belief in God and His wishes that makes us so angry at the specific beliefs of another? What is it about the teachings of our respective deities that makes us more right than the next person? Or more wrong?