Quotes About Tolerance

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

Love those you hate you.

I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

Time and Patience.

reconciliation of views

I]t takes a great great deal of salt to keep scurrility sweet.

For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.

Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others. —JOHANNES RAU1

A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others. —JOHANNES RAU

There can be no peace without understanding. ~ Senegalese Proverb

divisiveness

Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life. I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

Where there is a wish to please, one ought to overlook, and one does overlook a great deal.

You do not make allowance enough for difference of situation and temper.