Quotes About Tolerance

I don't really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it's enabled me to open my mind.

I don't know if I am a very good politician. I'm not a good hater.

Always look at good side of a man. And forget his faults.

In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion.

There is no delete button for bigotry.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!

We should not allow the fundamentalists and the bigots to take over and speak for the great faiths any more than we should let them take over and speak for the great nation.

I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.

In the West, they will either accept or reject. In the East, they will always accept also provide guidance and patience.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.