Quotes About Tolerance

To struggle against one's own flaws requires constant vigilance, but when you struggle against other people's flaws, you have to move more carefully and slowly.

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

With human beings the urge to make peace takes some time to germinate, while Homo Sapiens is always ready to hate.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.

Na minha idade, a única vantagem é saber que não vou aturar por muito tempo a estupidez humana.

Even if there were hundred bad Japanese, if there was one good one, he refused to make a blanket statement

You must be a diligent person with a humble heart. Have compassion for everyone. Even your enemies.

At work, nearly everyone was Korean, so nothing stupid was said about his background. At school, Mozasu hadn't thought that the taunts has bothered him much, but when the mean remarks had utterly disappeared from his daily life he realized how peaceful he could feel.

he assumed that her strict upbringing had much to do with her ability to forbear and endure.

Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings, no matter how great the disparity. To withhold your scorn is already beautiful. To see how we are all of one family is compassion.

She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.

I was patience defined, patience misspelled, patience sounded out slowly, letter by letter, with the t pronounced "shh.

What people in grief need most is to be compassionately accompanied, to feel that those who care about them are willing and able to tolerate the pain that they are in, to be there with them, to be present.

Do not answer with the answer of silence! Do not attack one who does not attack you.

Svi smo mi nesretni i treba da se toleriramo! Svi smo mi promašeni i svi smo promašili. Samljeveni smo kao izme?u dva žrvnja... Pa zašto da sa krvavim prstima stupimo u tminu? Skomraka ?e isto tako jesti crvi kao i mene i tebe! Pa bi bilo glavno da poživimo tu gdje jesmo, kako najbolje znamo...

Stolje?a mogu da žive jedno uz drugo stolje?ima, kao dvije strane rase u kavezu: majmuni i papige!

Christ has not come with a blueprint for political arrangements; many kinds of political arrangements are compatible with the Christian faith, from monarchy to democracy. But in a pluralistic context, Christ's command "in everything do to others as you would have them do to you" (Matt. 7:12) entails that Christians grant to other religious communities the same religious and political freedoms that they claim for themselves.

Thanks, Ms. Liberty! Is that a sari you're wearing? I hope not.

It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.