Quotes About Tolerance

Shall any man hate me? That will be his affair. But I will be mild and benevolent toward every man, and ready to show even him his mistake, not reproachfully, nor yet as making a display of my endurance, but nobly and honestly.

When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

One does not analyse a person one loves. One just loves them as they are.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.

strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

We need to be able to acknowledge and tolerate a person's wounded self -putting it into a perspective- in order to create a loving relationship with them.

no insult can do us harm if only we do not say or do anything in return.

Hatred must be a hard thing to learn.

Women are terribly shocking to men, my dear. Don't understand them. Like them. It saves such a lot of hurting one way and the other.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

When a person assumes that his or her revelation is the only true one, it only says that this person has had very few religious revelations and hasn't realized how many there are.

People are allowed to be boring, but everyone should be nice to Duncan.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.

The older I get, the more I realize that what other people think about me has little to do with who I am. All of us – Jews, Catholics, Lutherans, even the godless – will always be seen by others through their personal spectacles of perception.