Quotes About Tolerance

I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.

Jaren later zou Bruno beseffen dat het kleinburgerlijke wereldje van kantoorbedienden en consultants toleranter, gastvrijer en opener was dan dat van de alternatieve jeugd, die in die tijd werd belichaamd door de hippies.

Moi, j'aime les gens. Au fond, je les aime trop pour les juger.

Patience is eternal genius

I am standing on another soapbox making the case for tolerating people who oppose same-sex marriage.

In May 2014, a gay male couple paying their check after a nice dinner at Big Earl's Bait House in Pittsburgh, Texas, were ordered not to come back. "We don't serve fags here," the cashier, a daughter of the owner, told the men to their faces. "Here at Big Earl's we like for men to act like men and for ladies to act like ladies, so we want you to never return.

That's pretty much why I'm a UU, Curtis. Because our ministers can be gay, trans, Buddhist, atheist, any race, or same-sex adoptive parents with mixed-race families. You name it. That's the future. Everybody's in." "Here's to the future," said Adrian. We all lifted our water glasses in a toast.

You need not hate them, for that hurts you too,' she explained. 'It is sufficient to laugh at them.

You've got to learn to let people be themselves,

Was I supposed to make friends with whites and Hispanics and every other type of person on the globe? And

Be a lover and not a fighter. Being a lover gives you all the magical might but as a fighter it's an ugly plight. Win this world with love don't terrorize, love one love all simply MickeyMize.

No one is your enemy, we all are one. Some understand all about you and some none. Some accept you, some don't, some will like you and some won't. Let's not be divided, be on the same page, let's share love and care, not rage. Alone we may be powerful and together we become a force; let's not forget we are all born out of the same source. Let our egos be neutralized, let's heal together and get MickeyMized.

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.

for real growth, it is necessary to find people whose opinions are interesting and whose conversation is stimulating. A more difficult, but in the long run even more useful, skill to acquire is the ability to tolerate solitude, and to even enjoy it.

Constantine proclaimed that everyone should be allowed to live according to his conscience, without fear.13

We can't stop various events from happening, and we can't choose what other people do or say. Crazy people will always be present in our lives.

life is richer when it is shared even with those who annoy us from time to time.

If you don't conform to other people's ideas of what is right, correct, and proper, then don't worry. It is your right to look at things differently. Guilt should not enter the picture. There is already enough guilt, blame, and self-condemnation in the Universe to go around.

In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish.... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective.

Do you realize that everyone, absolutely everyone on this planet—grumpy office workers, arguing children, fickle spouses, the "narrow-minded," the extremists—all think they're doing their very best? So how do you get through to someone who thinks they're doing their very best? How would someone get through to you?

the strength of a democracy is not how well we agree but how well we disagree.

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.