Quotes About Tolerance

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion.

If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.

Everyone's belief is everyone else's concern.24 Those who talk of "tolerating all opinions" are very provincial bigots who are only familiar with one opinion.

But the problem is that "inclusiveness" and "tolerance" are dogmas. It is not dogma that divides people. It is dogma that brings people together. The ultimate common bond is truth. That is why it is worth arguing about.

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. —Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?

Because so large a portion of our fellow human beings articulate their own meaning, purpose, and values through their religions, it is essential that our children know as much as possible about those religions.

Along with the usual secular values (such as appropriate tolerance/intolerance, morality, critical thinking, appreciation for reason and science), don't forget to impart social graces, playfulness, and humor. Those go far in our short existences.

We must give ourselves a good hard mental swat every time we feel inclined to mock, sneer, or roll our eyes at those whose beliefs differ from our own. You

Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another's differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one's standards or one's opinions on political or public policy choices. Tolerance is a way of reacting to diversity, not a command to insulate it from examination.

Reading is an act of radical empathy: turning the page instead of turning away.

More is achieved by love than hate. Hate is the downfall of any race or nation.' Josephine Baker

religion that cannot survive looking at itself through the eyes of others does not deserve to survive.

Miss Daisy, if I can go to the bathroom even though I don't really have

It is parents and educators who need to create a climate that clearly communicates a moral code in which cruelty is neither tolerated nor ignored. In a home

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

We often hear about how we need to be more tolerant: to make room for people, ideas, and actions with which we may not agree. This is a prerequisite for a functional democracy. But tolerance alone is not sufficient; it allows us to accept others without engaging with them, to feel smug and self-satisfied without challenging the boundaries within which too many of us live.

How can people be so blinded by prejudice as to not see the common humanity?

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

For me, my discomfort with gay weddings was articulated by a close friend, who observed that gay people getting married is like retarded people getting together to give each other PhDs. It doesn't make them smarter, and it doesn't make us married.

Perhaps you will learn from this that books are sacred to free men for very good reasons, and that wars have been fought against nations which hate books and burn them. If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own. . . .

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.