Quotes About Tolerance

When your opponent is making a mistake, do nothing to interfere.

Nonviolence presupposes a level of humanness--however low it may be, in every human being.

You have your opinion, I have mine, and it takes all kinds of nuts and dips to make a party, right?

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue

Ibn al-Wahhab was not the godfather of contemporary terrorist movements. Rather, he was a voice of reform, reflecting mainstream eighteenth-century Islamic thought. His vision of Islamic society was based upon monotheism in which Muslims, Christians, and Jews were to enjoy peaceful co-existence and cooperative commercial treaty relations.

Prejudice is the emotional commitment to ignorance.

What is required for many of us, paradoxical though it may sound, is the courage to tolerate happiness without self-sabotage.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

For every child who wants to be accepted wholly and loved unconditionally, there are others who simply want to be accepted for who they are, even if they receive only a fraction of love. I don't think one cancels out the other. I don't believe that there is any right or wrong... we simply coexist.

Shri Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Odisha since 2000, adored by millions, for his ... Each bone of my body is secular. ...

Perfect love is perfectly patient.

Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.

You mustn't judge them so harshly. Everyone has a right to their own beliefs no matter how imbecilic.

Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love. The same holds true for music.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

CARTER It's whatever. Truth. People are not comfortable with difference. You know? Fags, retards, cripples. Fat people. Old folks, even. They scare us or something.

[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together.

Would we ever learn to get along with each other?

He is a calm man in a land of hotheads,

The Irish 'n Polacks always get along- didn't ya ever notice? Irish 'n Polacks live on p'tatoes 'n got it in for Hitler, that's why they get along so good; all over the world. Never heard of no war between Poland 'n Ireland, did you? No sir, that's cause we're all Cath'lics.

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite... Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.