Quotes About Tolerance

We live in a world of rights that has no sense of purpose; we live in a world of tolerance that has no sense of dignity for those tolerated or conscience concerning what is to be tolerated; we live in a world of leisure and squander it on empty pursuit; we live in a world of comfort and convenience where we can accumulate anything we want except that which matters most.

The emotional garbage I had carried all of those years - the prejudice and the denial, the shame and the guilt - was dissolved by understanding that the Other is not other at all.

Racists are not the pipe-smoking type, I thought to myself.

We must return to them their lawful rights, assure equality of justice - and then everybody leave everybody else to hell alone. Paternalistic - we show our prejudice in our paternalism - we downgrade their dignity.

If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?

All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down.

It's long been a point of mine that the freedom of religion, which this country alleges to support, works two ways. We're not only free to practice the religion of our choice, we should be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.

one of the more sophisticated and accepting things about Europe, when it came to difficult decisions regarding sexual identity, was that the Europeans were so used to sexual differences that they had already begun to make fun of them.

not simple intolerance but the tolerance of intolerance, which allows the intolerance to persist.

Elliot told me that bigots could be "slippery" if you accused them outright.

Writers simply have to accept readers who prefer other writers.

There was more than a hint of distaste in Roberta's references to homosexuals, and Garp thought it strange that people in the process of making a decision that will plant them firmly in a minority, forever, are possibly less tolerant of other minorities than we might imagine.

Ce n'était pas là l'un des points forts de Garp : la tolérance à l'égard des intolérants. Les fous le rendaient fou. On aurait dit qu'il se sentait personnellement révolté de les voir céder à la folie en partie, sans doute, parce que lui même devait si souvent lutter pour se comporter de façon sensée.

I find it a pity that freedom to disagree was not tolerated here today." Cooper

We were careless and wild, and I suppose we could be thought of as a sign of the life the war was being fought to preserve. Anyway, they were more indulgent toward us than at any other time; they snapped at the heels of the seniors, driving and molding and arming them for the war. They noticed our games tolerantly. We reminded them of what peace was like, of lives which were not bound up with destruction.

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love

Make love, not war.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

if everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!

It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!

E?er herkes ba?ka bir televizyon seti yerine bar?? isteseydi o zaman bar?? olurdu.

I]n the interests of our common tasks, we must sometimes overlook their stupidities," one Soviet official explained in 1973.

the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."21

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.