Quotes About Tolerance

Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.

Treat the other man's faith gently it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Too mutch religion iz wuss than none at all. Yu kant sho me a kuntry that haz existed yet, whare the people, all ov them, professed one religion and persekuted all other kinds, but what the religion ruined the country.

HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS

The assertion that you are in falsehood and I am in truth ist the most cruel thing one man can say to another

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; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless.

As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in his heart. To each of them it seemed that the life he led was the only real life, and the one his friend led was a mere illusion.

Love them that hate you, but you can't love those you hate.

If once we begin judging and arguing about everything, nothing sacred will be left!

Levin had long before made the observation that when one is uncomfortable with people from their being excessively amenable and meek, one is apt very soon after to find things intolerable from their touchiness and irritability.

I love everybody and pity everybody.

wisdom needs no violence.

Love them that hate you, but you can't love them whom you hate.

We should always try to find those things which do not separate us from other people but which unite us. To work against each other, to be angry and turn your back on each other, is to work against nature. —MARCUS AURELIUS

And since no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions, they never agreed in any opinion, and had long, indeed, been accustomed to jeer without anger, each at the other's incorrigible aberrations.

In order not to give myself up to the desire to kill him on the spot, I felt compelled to treat him cordially.

But who discovered it? Not reason. Reason discovered the struggle for existence, and the law that requires us to oppress all who hinder the satisfaction of our desires. That is the deduction of reason. But loving one's neighbor reason could never discover, because it's irrational.

Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if any man take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also,

I have heard it said that women love men even for their vices," Anna began suddenly, "but I hate him for his virtues. I can't live with him. Do you understand?

There is only one thing in this world which is worth dedicating all your life. This is creating more love among people and destroying barriers which exist between them.

Like all those who live in touch with nature and have known want, he was patient and could wait for hours, even days without growing restless or irritable

For an instant he was offended, but immediately knew he could not be offended with her because she was himself.