Quotes About Tolerance

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Equanimity embraces the loved and the unloved, the agreeable and the disagreeable, the pleasure and pain. It eliminates clinging and aversion.

The very important thing you should have is patience.

In probably the first law of its kind anywhere in the world, Genghis Khan decreed complete and total religious freedom for everyone.

Why were humans so good at not seeing anyone who didn't fit into their vision of how things should be?

I want to learn about other cultures. I want to hear other voices.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.

Whatever anyone says or does is more about them than it is about me...

Sometimes you just had to let people be who they were, let them have their highs and lows.

I've come to the conclusion that liking a person we are required to have dealings with is not of paramount importance. But respect is crucial, on both sides, as is tolerance, and a depth of understanding of those influences that sculpt a character.

I don't "take a lot of mess." I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence, and I have no tolerance for people not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it.

No voting. No fighting. No cursing. No wars.

People are so caught up in trying to force their own world onto everybody else's that they don't even get the fact that the other person doesn't care.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

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It is that love can make the most terrible things acceptable.

My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me.

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Oh for God's sake, Jack, lighten up. You know the old saying. Every man loves the smell of his own farts." In

Hume declared that 'Our connection with each other, as men of letters, is greater than our differences as adhering to different sects or systems'. 'Let us', he continued, 'revive the happy times, when Atticus and Cassius the Epicureans, Cicero the Academic, and Brutus the Stoic, could, all of them, live in unreserved friendship together, and were insensible to all those distinctions, except so far as they furnished matter to discourse and conversation'.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.