Quotes About Tolerance

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

War is the enemy of all mankind.

There's only one thing to do with politics, and that is to survive it.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

I don't believe in religious tests, and I don't believe my religion is all that important to the people I represent. And I think there's too much religion in politics.

If we cannot now end our differences at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.

The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

I've got a lot of different religious ideas circling through my family, but the positive thing is that I was raised with a lot of openness and compassion.

If my 'mind' don't mind, I don't mind.