Quotes About Tolerance

Even though we know our enemies, but we still welcome them with open hands.

Fanaticism must be put to death and allow reason to prevail over ignorance.

Open-minded is the ability to look on both sides without taking side. Fanaticism must be put to death.

Self-forgiveness, including others, is the first step to being an open-minded individual.

Teach and learn from one another, instead of fighting daily. Work as a team and save humanity from ignorance and intolerance.

The best way to learn something new is to banish fanaticism in all of its shapes and forms.

The colour of your skin means nothing to the blood circulating in your body.

The price of fame is the cultivation of tolerance.

The purpose of gayhood is to destroy the concept of brotherhood or brotherly love.

To be married, you must become tolerant and avoid most of the feelings of resisting in every situation.

We are meant to care for each other, instead of trying to kill each other.

We become automatically unfaithful by referring to another creature of God as an infidel.

We cannot define the true meaning of the word patience without becoming impatient ourselves.

We claim to worship the same God, but we know deep down that the other person must follow our path as the best path to heaven.

We do not wish to judge anyone nor wish to be judged in return. Meaning, we must dwell on the neutral side, in order to fully understand ourselves and those who are constantly causing us trouble in our daily lives.

We must take into consideration the opinions of others; simply because we all look at the world through different lenses.

we have developed a corollary that is neither love nor forgiveness—namely, tolerance. The problem with this is clear: I can "tolerate" you without it costing me anything very much. I can shrug my shoulders, walk away, and leave you to do your own thing. That, admittedly, is preferable to my taking you by the throat and shaking you until you agree with me. But it is certainly not love.

It is an interesting observation on today's religious climate that many people now get every bit as steamed up about insisting that 'all religions are just the same' as the older dogmaticians did about insisting on particular formulations and interpretations. The dogma that all dogmas are wrong, the monolithic insistence that all monolithic systems are to be rejected, has taken hold of the popular imagination at a level far beyond rational or logical discourse.

We applaud patience but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.

Gamaliel, at least as portrayed in Acts, advocated the policy of "live and let live." If people wanted to follow this man Jesus, they could do so.9 If this new movement was from God, it would prosper; if not, it would fall by its own weight. If the Romans wanted to run the world, so be it. Jews would study and practice the Torah by themselves. This, broadly speaking, had been the teaching of Hillel, a leading rabbi of the previous generation.

Saying "It's true for you" sounds fine and tolerant. But it only works because it's twisting the word "true" to mean, not "a true revelation of the way things are in the real world," but "something that is genuinely happening inside you.

I think "tolerance" is being seen for what it is, a low-grade post-Enlightenment version of "love." It is often remarked that those who hail the word "tolerance" regularly become intolerant of all other views, just as those who champion "inclusivity" regularly become increasingly exclusive toward worldviews other than their own.

He does not here ask the different groups to give up their practices; merely not to judge one another where differences exist. As Paul well knew (though we sometimes forget), this is actually just as large a step, if not larger, than a change in practice itself. The move from regarding something as mandatory to regarding it as optional is vast, just as vast in fact as the move from regarding something as forbidden to regarding it as available.

I will fight you endlessly if I think you're wrong but I will never judge you.