Quotes About Tolerance

If you judge people you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

when people are different and don't believe the same things, it's not likely that a life together would ever work.

how much patience is a virtue, how much rage is a necessity?

How hollow must your life be for you to waste it hating and oppressing others, whose lives are of no consequence to your own?

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

So what? German or French, friend or enemy, he's first and foremost a man and I'm a woman. He's good to me, kind, attentive. . .that's good enough for me. I'm not looking for anything else. Our lives are complicated enough with all these wars and bombings. Between a man and a woman, none of that's important. I couldn't care less if the man I fancy is English or black - I'd still offer myself to him if I got the opportunity.

Sex, yes; sexism, no.

Life is too short,I wonder how people hate

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

Our imperfections are the bonds that hold us together. We might as well recognize them.

The man who wants to make me change my religion surely does so only because he would not change his, even if forced: he thinks it strange, then, that I do not do something he would not do himself perhaps for the whole world." Montesquieu

Minor inconveniences are just that, and nothing more.

All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us.

In any marriage, a type difference may at times produce an outright conflict [...] When this happens [...] One or both can assume that it is wrong of the other to be different - and be righteously indignant [...] They can assume that it is wrong of themselves to be different - and be depressed [...] Or they can acknowledge that each is justifiably and interestingly different from the other - and be amused.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

Esta manera de considerar la filosofía sostiene la fe de Berlin en el pluralismo.

When you've waited two hundred million years, you can also wait six hundred;

Forgive me if I have a kind of allergic reaction to all words that hint of nationalism...

V jedné jediné mali?kosti se s Augustou neshodujeme, a to v názoru, jak zacházet se zlobivými dÄ›tmi: já si myslím, že bolest dítÄ›te je ménÄ› d?ležitá než naÅ¡e a že je lepÅ¡í zp?sobit bolest dítÄ›ti, jestliže to dospÄ›lého uÅ¡etÃ…â"¢í velké mrzutosti, kdežto ona se domnívá, že jsme dítÄ› zplodili, a tak je musíme taky snáÅ¡et.

Growth has become addictive. Like heroin addiction, the habit distorts basic value judgments. Addicts of any kind are willing to pay increasing amounts for declining satisfactions. They have become tolerant to escalating marginal disutility. They are blind to deeper frustration because they are absorbed in playing for always mounting stakes.

The person who is impatient with weakness will be ineffective in his leadership.

Often we think of patience in passive terms, as if the patient person is utterly submissive and half asleep.

Neither rites nor rituals, neither creed nor ceremonies are needed to improve the condition of the world. All that is needed is love for one another.

We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.