Quotes About Tolerance

Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.

I keep my opinions to myself. I've always said that everyone is free to think what you like.

By isolating ourselves from those with whose opinions we disagree, we lose the ability to defend our beliefs.

I had to realize that everyone has opinions, and they all have the right to feel a certain way, and you have to respect that.

Let those who have not walked as we have done, In the red fire of passion, those whose lives Are dull and colourless, in a word let those, If any such there be, who have not loved, Cast stones against you

I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognises infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. 

My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

If you want to know where a person is coming from, you need to read this material, not tear it up! You got to see what makes him think what he thinks! -Ann Atwater

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.

Hating people isn't a productive way of living. So what's the point in hating anyone? There's enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah

Remember the lesson our ancestors learned with their precious blood: Fear and bigotry are bred from isolation and ignorance.

Segregation breeds ignorance, and ignorance breeds fear.

I don't know why it is, but I've never been able to bear with fortitude anything in the shape of a kid with golden curls. Confronted with one, I feel the urge to step on him or drop things on him from a height.

I don't mind people talking rot in my presence, but it must not be utter rot.

The ideal girl . . . would be kind. That was because she would also be extremely intelligent, and, being extremely intelligent, would have need of kindness to enable her to bear with a not very intelligent man like himself.

He was no prude, but he had those decent prejudices of which no self-respecting man can wholly rid himself, however broad-minded he may try to be.

Tut!' I said. 'What did you say?' 'I said Tut!' 'Say it once again, and I'll biff you where you stand. I've enough to endure without being tutted at.