Quotes About Tolerance

Stubbornness is not the opposite of leniency, but the extension of tolerance.

The world becomes smaller when some people shuts the door for others.

There are no diverse cultures in any land, only acceptance and unacceptance.

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.

para mim, o amor por uma pessoa é o respeito pelos mesmos sentimentos individuais - o respeito à privacidade e a aceitação dos defeitos.

These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don't give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of. They go on and on with all this bullshit about 'sanctity' — don't give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.

But the time has already arrived when such a joke does not register as funny. What have we gained, except a classroom in which no one need feel excluded?

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together

If you don't like a book, you can close it. But you have no right to say I can't open it.

And love?" asked the Sangharaj. "The ultimate compromise," said Siri. "It's so important to have a partner that we cut and shape our tastes and likes and dislikes and go to great lengths to tolerate differences. We do this so we have someone beside us.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

Do thyself no harm! for we are all here!

A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight begins.

There are some people in this world who like everything squared up and precise, and there are those who will allow some drift at the margins.

Because Islam doesn't," he said, his voice toneless

You can't be disgusting to people just because they annoy you!" she exclaimed very crossly. "Thousands of people annoy me! Millions of people annoy millions of people all the time! . . . You have to put up with them.

Even Dad likes it," said Caddy, and her father agreed that he did. In a way. Being a broad-minded, tolerant, artistic sort of person. Or so people told him... "Oh, yes?" said Saffron, rolling her eyes. "Yes," said Bill, sounding a little bit peeved. "So you thank your lucky stars, my girl, because in some families you would have come home to very big trouble! A nose stud! At your age! If you come down with blood poisoning, don't blame me!

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

Don't shoot," I said. "We can always kill some of them whenever we want to. Let's let them live a little longer.

Mithridatism, it's called. Isn't that a funny name? The process of eating poison to build up immunity. So long as I don't die from it, I'll be harder to kill

Don't take it personally," Call said. "Lots of people find me really annoying. It's not just you.

So long as you're begging, he doesn't mind a bit.