Quotes About Tolerance

The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened by convictions.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

I cannot make everybody else as rapid as myself.

For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. And

Lo importante es sobrevivir y una persona tolerará el dolor y renunciará al placer para mantenerse viva.

There is room in history for all of us.

At every trifle, scorn to take offence; that always shows great pride, or little sense

At ev'ry trifle scorn to take offense.

On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore,Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.

Love covers all kinds of offenses, hurts, annoyances, disappointments, and sins that we all suffer because of others. Only love has the power to freely and repeatedly forgive, to truly seek to understand people's weaknesses and complexities, to put things into proper perspective, and to put a blanket over other people's faults.

The most dangerous worldviews are the worldviews of those who have never viewed the world.

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world.

Frederick claimed to be tired of looking into blue eyes and encouraged not only French, German and Polish immigrants but Greeks and other Mediterraneans to come; he had an immigration office set up in Venice and considered building a mosque in Berlin to attract Turks.

Various forms of religious madness are quite common in the United States.

The failure to adopt other people's points of view, to take an imaginative leap out of oneself, is one way to account for much of the behavior we find, troublesome, from littering to murder. (Kafka once referred to war as "a monstrous failure of imagination.") Perspective taking helps us at once to see others as fundamentally similar to ourselves despite superficial differences (in that we share a common humanity)

We'll talk without listening to each other that is the best way to get along.

It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us." Alfred E. Smith, governor of New York after WWI

That is all that we want, what people want, what people want in New York, in Washington, in Pittsburgh, in any other place in the United States or in Europe. People want to live peacefully. That's what we want.

Even a liberal city will have a prehistoric homophobe. After a show in Washington State, this guy came up to me and said, 'Your shows was a lot funnier before you started in on your agenda.' I told him, 'Please, please keep people like you from coming to my show. I'm glad you had a bad time.'

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.

I don't waste time despising people.

I'm fortunate enough to have learned not to waste time getting frustrated with my kids, or co-workers, or friends and family for not doing everything I wish they would. If someone doesn't respond to me the way I want them to, I understand that it doesn't have anything to do with me.

I'm not embarrassed of anything that I watch.