Quotes About Tolerance

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous -- on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.

We must love one another or die

The kind of people I absolutely cannot tolerate are those who never let you forget they are religious. It seems to me that a truly religious person would let his life be example enough, would not let his religion interfere with being a human being, and would not be so insecure as to have to fawn publicly before his gods.

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.

Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.

If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.

Most Americans are very cool people.

So does being cool mean you get to go around calling other people names?

I hate people in general, but you guys are cool with me.

Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other and have the courage to accept each other as we are.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.