Quotes About Tolerance

I understand the power of symbols, and if I had anything on my house that seriously offended someone, I'd take it down if for no other reason than common courtesy.

I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

Australia is not a secular country. It is a free country. This is a nation where you have the freedom to follow any belief system you choose.

The fact remains that secularism is inherent in the Indian system, in the Indian ethos and culture. India cannot but be secular.

You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

Never embrace a version of the gospel that doesn't require you to do life with someone who isn't like you.

You know, I hope you don't judge

Meekness disarms the violent.

Great achievement! I learn how to be tolerant when I become the victim of somebody else's spiritual pride [1928].

It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding our own, and be prevented from thinking that everything contrary to our customs is ridiculous and irrational, a conclusion usually come to by those whose experience has been limited to their own country.

It is good to know something of the customs of different people in order to judge more soundly of our own, and so that we might not think that all that which is contrary to our own ways be ridiculous and contrary to reason, as those who have seen nothing have the habit of doing.

It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think.

So long as western people imagine that there only exists a single type of humanity, that there is only one 'civilization', at different stages of development, no mutual understanding will be possible.

We cannot help noticing that, like all propagandists, the apostles of tolerance, truth to tell, are very often the most intolerant of men.

d'ailleurs nous ne pouvons nous empêcher de constater que, comme tous les propagandistes, les apôtres de la tolérance sont très souvent, en fait, les plus intolérants des hommes.

rien n'est moins tolérant en pratique que les gens qui éprouvent le besoin de prêcher la tolérance et la fraternité.

Hatred is one long wait.

Diversity enriches the soul. It is at the very essence of the life experience."

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

IF WE ARE very forbearing, then something we would normally consider very painful will not appear so bad after all. But without patient endurance, even the smallest thing becomes unbearable. A lot depends on our attitude.

You can't change the way people are. You have to accept them just like you want them to accept you.

religion and the wars against other faiths it engenders should teach us all that we have a pretty good thing going here. In fact, the separation of church and state is probably the single best idea that our two-hundred-year experiment in democracy has engendered.