Quotes About Tolerance

You are entitled to your opinion but you are not entitled to dictate mine.

Be a control freak and people will avoid you. Live and let live, and people will get closer to you and do the same for you.

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Familiarity is the gateway drug to empathy.

To hate is to harm.

Do not be too quick to get angry.

No two souls are alike; but at the core, they are the same. All souls have had different life experiences, and in a way, those experiences shape our outlook on life and the various ways to live it. Souls can express themselves through a life of compassion, tolerance, judgment, or violence.

If you lived a life of closed-mindedness, intolerance, hate, and judgment, that's what you'll have to face in yourself when you pass into the world of Spirit. Some people might call it hell, but it's said in the Bible, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Your thoughts and words and deeds have consequences.

All you need is love. It sounded true but wasn't. You needed a hell of a lot more than that. You needed tolerance and self-control, and you needed empathy and strength and discipline and flexibility. You needed serenity and good luck.

Do you know, I don't object to anyone's having prejudices so long as those prejudices don't interfere with my personal liberty.

He respected a person's right to weakness.

I kiss him and he kisses me and we laugh and we are close and I believe so deeply in that moment that I can tolerate his bullshit.

People thought tolerance was the opposite of intolerance. Whereas in fact it was some meaningless neutrality. A child, any child, growing up, discovering herself and the nature of her deepest, most native desires - what use was tolerance to a child? It was encouragement she needed, encouragement first to be, then to love, herself. Or himself, whichever.

One who judges too soon, condemns himself.

If we can not Think for ourselves how we want to Judge others?

If we can accept that we All are the Same, we Will meet the respect that is need to Be happy.

We are all Unique in the Same World with Different Thinking and want to Have a Peaceful Life, please Accept Each Other in the Way we Are.

We all can have Fun if we can accept each other in Peace.

Enemies are people whose stories you haven't yet heard and whose faces you haven't yet seen. —Irene Hasenberg Butter, Holocaust survivor, during an interview at her home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 13, 2013

I have stretched in my spiritual practice to think and pray not only as a Christian, but as a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Native American, an atheist, a post-theist. I try on different hats as I light my candle, and while my thoughts might change or my prayers

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Seasoning one's claims with self-irony and modesty, cultivating a tolerance for moral ambiguity, periodically practicing normative reticence, building up a resistance to the pleasure of purity, minding your own business, doing what you can to forget to wreak vengeance, defending negative freedom even if there is no such thing, and playing around are the best you can do. But that's quite a lot.

What if the only non-humans the two-legs know," she mused, "are the Cousin-kind? How stupid they would believe all others who walk the earth to be!

I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.