Quotes About Tolerance

This has been going on through the ages. They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world that escapes criticism. There never was and never will be, nor is there now, the wholly criticized or the wholly approved.

If we find ourselves unworkable and give up on ourselves, then we'll find others unworkable and give up on them.

To make things as easy as possible to under stand, we can summarize the four boundless qualities in the single phrase "a kind heart." Just train yourself to have a kind heart always and in all situations. —PATRUL RINPOCHE

Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don't know what to do with all those feelings.

Have we become so defensive that we cannot even tolerate a kind act?

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.

I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person.

Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument.

Agreeing to differ. [Lat., Discors concordia.]

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.

I think everybody should like everybody.

Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

There's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.

Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes.

I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.

We need to regain the art of civil discourse and more practically, I don't think you change anyone's mind by calling them names.