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Quotes About Tolerance

Respect people with honey,they must have had their fair share of bee stings
~ Unknown
There needed to be places like this - places to read and write and study and argue and debate with all different kinds of people and not to have to look over your shoulder all the time. Places where the desire for knowledge overwhelmed boundaries and differences.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Semboyan negeri kami adalah Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, berbeda-beda tetapi satu.
~ Cindy Adams
Aku akan memuji setiap hal yang baik, tak pandang ia datangnya sebagai seorang Komunis, Islam atau seorang Hopi Indian.
~ Cindy Adams
Amerika bersikap toleran pada negara Asia yang terbelakang karena dua alasan. Pertama, kami merupakan pasar yang bagus. Kami membayar kembali dengan memberi bunga. Dan yang kedua, mereka takut kami menjadi komunis. Ia mencoba membeli kesetiaan kami. Ia membagi-bagi hadiah dan banyak, hanya karena ketakutan. Lalu, kalau kami tidak berbuat sesuai yang ia inginkan, ia mencabut kembali pinjaman yang telah diberikan dan memperingatkan "Tak ada lagi pinjaman, kecuali jika kelakuanmu berubah!
~ Cindy Adams
Uw geloof is niets meer dan grootheidswaan, getolereerd door de gemeenschap.
~ Cioran
Het is omdat we allemaal oplichters zijn dat we elkaar verdragen. Iemand die het liegen niet aanvaardt zal de grond onder zijn voeten zien verdwijnen: we zijn biologisch gedwongen tot het onjuiste.
~ Cioran
Alle standpunten toelaten, de meest verschillende overtuigingen, de meest tegenstrijdige meningen, veronderstelt een algemene toestand van vermoeidheid en onvruchtbaarheid. Daardoor komt dit wonder tot stand: de tegenstanders leven samen - maar juist omdat zij geen tegenstanders meer kunnen zijn; [...] Een religie dooft uit wanneer zij waarheden tolereert die haar uitsluiten; en de god in wiens naam men niet meer moord is beslist dood.
~ Cioran
We live in a world that has popularized Black people showing the same hate towards white people that people like Martin Luther King Jr. died fighting to overcome. It's sad. Sad as hell.
~ Unknown
encourages them to overlook behavior that needs overlooking. In autism, that's important. Yet
~ Unknown
If there is one thing I learned from Maggie it was that you accept people as they are, and you just don't demand more than they want to give.
~ Unknown
Living is extremely tolerable, living keeps us busy and distracts us, living makes us laugh.
~ Clarice Lispector
The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we would condemn. By refusing to consider as human those who seem to us to be the most "savage" or "barbarous" of their representatives, we merely adopt one of their own characteristic attitudes. The barbarian is, first and foremost, the man who believes in barbarism.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
La tolérance n'est pas une position contemplative, dispensant les indulgences à ce qui fut ou à ce qui est. C'est une attitude dynamique, qui consiste à prévoir, à comprendre et à promouvoir ce qui veut être.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
Creo que cada uno de nosotros llega a la verdad que puede tolerar. Y, parado allí, no se atreve a dar otro paso. Es un límite que pone nuestro propio instinto de conservación.
~ Unknown
I learned early that being right pales next to staying in the room.
~ Claudia Rankine
What this world needs is a new kind of army — the army of the kind.
~ Cleveland Amory
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
~ Cleveland Amory
Here is what I know about homosexuality: That it is okay. That it is a sin if done wrong. That it is a better sin if done right
~ Unknown
Man's inability to understand and appreciate the thought and viewpoint of another man would be a stumbling block which no amount of mechanical ability could overcome.
~ Clifford D. Simak
And yet he had learned to submerge that sense of horror, to disregard the outward appearance of it, to regard all life as brother life, to meet all things as people.
~ Clifford D. Simak
Well," said Winslowe, moving over to plant himself behind the wheel, "it don't matter much what any of us are, just so we get along with one another. If some of the nations would only take a lesson from some small neighborhood like ours—a lesson in how to get along—the world would be a whole lot better.
~ Clifford D. Simak
Patience isn't a gift. It is learned.
~ Clifford Thurlow
Pray for the world that all transgressors rectify themselves, not to tolerate them to do more evil.
~ Unknown