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Quotes About Tolerance

Raise your thoughts, not your fists.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The free world cannot afford to accept any form of extremism, whether it is fascism, racism or religious extremism.
~ Widad Akreyi
Peace adores above everything free discussion and expression without intimidation.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.
~ Charles Lindbergh
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
~ Rue McClanahan
When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.
~ T. S. Eliot
Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.
~ Scott Adams
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
~ John Stuart Mill
Before you hate something you should try to understand it.
~ Martha Grimes, Dakota
I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.
~ Kevin Ayers
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
~ Voltaire
Don't judge me, you could be me in another life.
~ Sting
Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.
~ Robin Williams
My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.
~ Omar Sharif
Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land.
~ Frank Murphy
Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.
~ Bob Ehrlich
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
~ Oscar Wilde
I'm the color me happy girl, Miss live and let live. And when they're out for blood, I always give.
~ Ani DiFranco
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.
~ Mary Ritter Beard
If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]'s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn't have bin Ladens.
~ Coretta Scott King
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
~ Benjamin Disraeli