Quotes About Tolerance

It starts out small. You put up with little things in a relationship and then … the little things gradually get bigger.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

If everyone was like you the World would be a better place.

It wasn't easy, but she was used to swallowing.

You learn to have a high weirdness tolerance as a witch.

You learn to have a high weirdness tolerance as a witch. Some luck isn't bad or good, it's just luck, the way the pebble falls or the coin flips, the way the cue ball rides. Luck or gods, it didn't matter.

I think above all else it is freedom I search for in my work, in these far-flung places, to find a group of people who give each other the room to be in whatever way they need to be.

Her last sentences urged acceptance of cultural relativism and tolerance of differences.

conformity created maladjustment and tradition could turn psychopathic. Her last sentences urged acceptance of cultural relativism and tolerance of differences.

We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance.

All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.

Those who think differently from us sometimes possess truths we have not yet discovered.

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

Honey, God made us all with special needs. Some are simply more apparent than others.

unless you've walked in another person's skin, you don't know what he's put up with, what he's gone through

It's not hard to care about people who are like you...Your own family, and people like them. But...we have to always make the extra effort with people who aren't like us. To care about them and listen to them, especially if they'e different from us. Because that's one of the things that makes us human. It's something we can do that other animals can't.

Sometimes the other guys teased [Patrick] about having a girl friend, but it didn't seem to bother him. It didn't bother me, either. If those guys couldn't tell the difference between a friend and a girlfriend—well, that made them too dense to be worth worrying about.

There were of course exceptions, but on the whole the "intellectuals" among us withstood the hardships of the journey resignedly and patiently. They proved to be tougher, quieter, more uncomplaining than many men from other walks of life who were physically stronger and physically better trained.

I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my might to understand them.- Spinoza

I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.

I think that's the biggest favor you can grant anyone, don't you? Permission to be dull. I know Henry will sometimes say something so utterly uninteresting that I could faint. And that's when you know you're in love; the tedium isn't unbearable, it's lovely.