logo

Quotes About Tolerance

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.
~ Eileen Brennan
It blows my mind that anyone could be unkind to anyone.
~ Minka Kelly
People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves.
~ Eileen Brennan
To be unkind to anyone. There's no room for that. Not on my watch.
~ Jennifer Konner
Harshness and unkindness are relative. The appearance of them may be the fruits of the greatest kindness.
~ William Godwin
I dislike hatred, offence, unkindness.
~ Sandi Toksvig
There's practically no religion that I know of that sees other people in a way that affirms the others' choices. But in our century we're forced to think about a pluralistic world.
~ Elaine Pagels
The only way to build a peaceful community is to build men and women who are lovers and makers of peace.
~ John Andreas Widtsoe
As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives.
~ Hope Solo
There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.
~ Ruth Simmons
A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.
~ C. S. Lewis
It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.
~ Melvil Dewey
People who are overweight face discrimination. African-Americans face discrimination. Women face discrimination and sexism. So I don't have the luxury of not being tolerant of anyone.
~ Octavia Spencer
Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It's one of things you'll have to get used to, as you get older.
~ David Eddings
I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?
~ Elisha Cuthbert
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
~ George Eliot
Costs are incurred whenever any group is treated as lesser or the other, whether they are women, racial, or religious minorities, or the LGBT.
~ Hillary Clinton
Finally, as I've said, this is - why are you talking about Jewish women's wigs and people wearing turbans? That has nothing whatsoever to do with niqab.
~ Jason Kenney
We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.
~ Judith Martin
There's no reason to yell at anybody.
~ Laura Schlessinger
There's no point feeling angry at a drunk.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.
~ Mary-Louise Parker
I do think that there are - again, gross generalization - more women than men that can tolerate that or that are OK with that.
~ Maryann Brandon