Quotes About Tolerance

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness.

This idea that it's intolerant to object to anyone else's position, hovever, is a complete perversion of the historic understanding of tolrance, which was that one had to have the respect to listen to anyone else's point of view, even one with which one might profoundly disagree. Tolerance did not reject truth claims; it respected them.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

The men, who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

A man must take the fat with the lean.

what was over couldn't be begun, and what couldn't be cured must be endured;

evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction on his head. They began to accommodate themselves to his level, calling him 'Mr Baptist,' but treating him like a baby, and laughing immoderately at his lively gestures and his childish English—more,

My father's wery much in that line now. If my mother-in-law blows him up, he whistles. She flies in a passion, and breaks his pipe; he steps out, and gets another. Then she screams wery loud, and falls into 'sterics; and he smokes wery comfortably till she comes to agin. That's philosophy, Sir, ain't it?

full well knowing that, whatever little motes my beamy eyes may have descried in theirs, they belong to a kind, generous, large-hearted, and great people.

He was a mere child in the world, but he didn't cry for the moon. He said to the world, 'Go your several ways in peace! Wear red coats, blue coats, lawn-sleeves, put pens behind your ears, wear aprons; go after glory, holiness, commerce, trade, any object you prefer; only - let Harold Skimpole live!

by embracing literary theory, we learn about literature, but more important we are also taught tolerance for other people's beliefs. By rejecting or ignoring theory, we are in danger of canonizing ourselves as literary saints who possess divine knowledge and who can, therefore, supply the one and only correct interpretation for a given text.

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.

When, upon the closed system of normal preoccupations, a story of a sea serpent appears, it is inhospitably treated. To us of the wider cordialities, it has recommendations for kinder reception. I think that we shall be noted in recognitions of good works for our bizarre charities.

He that is uneasy at every little pain is never without some ache.

To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error.

Plant love everywhere, so that it grows through the cracks in hatred.

People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.