Quotes About Tolerance

I don't judge, not even myself.

No juzgo a nadie, ni siquiera a mí mismo

People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.

Keep away from the literal-minded folk, and ignore the scoffers.

as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.

Why can't Jews with their Jewish problems be human beings with their human problems?

It's amazing how much punishment we can take.

There is no life without patience.

And, no matter how evolved a person may think he is, he has no right to interfere with the spiritual practices of another, because interference is itself the most un-evolved of all religious actions.

True unity is built upon freedom, not conformity

There is a need for a better American political class. But for now, there is little apparent demand. Those who care the most often hate the most, and one of their chief methods of discrediting ideological allies with whom they compete is by portraying them as too tolerant of the hated political enemy. Kindness is perceived as weakness. Decency is treated as if it's cowardice. Acts of grace are an unthinkable concession to evil.

Impatience can be fatal.

We'll never really tame this girl. We'll just learn to live with her." She used to say that a lot, even after I kept reminding her, "I'm not Kylee, I'm Kyle! I'm not a girl anymore. I'm a boy now.

The trick was to live here without hating yourself because all around you was hatred.

The people of the southern highlands have been remarkably even-handed in their antipathies—which they have applied to all strangers without regard to race, religion or nationality.

If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.

promote the teaching in mosques and madrassas that Muslims must coexist peacefully as equals with infidels on a permanent basis. And they could oppose blasphemy laws, such as the anti-Islamophobia resolutions they are promoting, which are a direct assault on the American Bill of Rights.

Islamophobia is the perfect totalitarian doctrine as it is the first step in outlawing freedom of speech — and therefore freedom itself — in the name of religious tolerance.

He might have thought white people was coyotes, but he still shared food with me. Long as people do that, I guess it don't matter what they think of you.

Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the other three temperaments.

There is nothing wrong with being gay. It's like being Swedish. A little different but in no way important.

Just because you are dealing with difficult people does not mean that you must become like them.

Part of love is letting a person be who they want to be

The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.