Quotes About Tolerance

The secret of patience is doing something else in the meanwhile

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

End discrimination. Hate everybody.

Humanity's survival does not depend on reducing differences to a common identity, but on learning to live creatively with differences.

Never judge someone till you've walked a mile in their shoes, cause then you're a mile away and you've got their shoes.

Use disappointments as material for patience.

Don't allow the unfair judgment of others make you judgmental in return.

And what she wanted more than anything that moment was for all the differences between people to matter no more - differences in size and race and belief....

People ought to be a lot quicker to listen to each other and a little slower to listen to something that calls itself a god.

hating is a common thing which everyone feels easy than understanding..

Think of this: Hundreds of people today are doing things that not a single one of the them would have dared to do at the beginning of the Seventies. We are now living in a truly new and different situation. This is not because the government has become more tolerant; it simply had to get used to the new situation. It has had to yield to continuing pressure from below, which means pressure from all those apparently suicidal or exhibitionistic civic acts.

In other words, if there is to be any chance at all of success, there is only one way to strive for decency, reason, responsibility, sincerity, civility, and tolerance, and that is decently, reasonably, responsibly, sincerely, civilly, and tolerantly.

Lately, Nastoyna felt that she had no right to criticize anyone at all -- no man, no animal, no bird, because each lived his own life, which was not in his control and which he could not change.

Patience is being friends with Time.

There is no hospitality like understanding.

We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.

Tim Keller observes, "We are all exclusive in our beliefs about religion, but in different ways."3

Funny how Underhill could get along with almost anyone, tuning down his manias to whatever the traffic would bear.

What I learnt from that was that the exhaustion that pain brings arises because we resist it. The thing is to learn to go with the pain, to ride it.

Oh, but how I do miss our lovely city," he sighed. "In Alexandria, there was beauty and learning and tolerance. Here, I see ugly buildings and people who want only to watch the bloody gladiatorial games." He threw up his hands in disgust. "Where are the libraries? Where are the scholars, the poets? This is a place of brutes and beasts, not brains.

At first, the pinpricks felt like hot fly bites down the soft white skin over her spine and along her shoulders. The first time Rina flinched, the mage had admonished her harshly. She hadn't moved again.

Toleration is the best religion.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

It is with a certain lethargy that I let everything take its course.