Quotes About Tolerance

The ideal human agreement is one in which distinctions of race and color and religion are totally disregarded; anyone helping to preserve those distinctions is postponing that ideal; and you are certainly helping to preserve them.

These smokes can take it, they're used to it.

You are headstrong and I am magisterial. Our tolerance of each other is a constantly recurring miracle.

Some day, Archie, when I decide you are no longer worth tolerating, you will have to marry a woman of very modest mental capacity to get an appropriate audience for your wretched sarcasms.

The ideal human agreement is one in which distinctions of race and color and religion are totally disregarded;

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Understanding is forgiveness. - Sonnet XV

It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its "false idols." It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols—bigotry and fanaticism—worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

no religion is inherently violent or peaceful; people are violent or peaceful.

pluralism implies religious tolerance, not unchecked religious freedom.

Being gentle puts compassion to work and overrides your need to be right

When judgment ceases, communication and connection increases

Acceptance is the greatest gift you can give to another human being

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." Philo of Alexandria (circa 20 BC–AD 50) PHILOSOPHER

you judge someone and think they are bad, you are not giving love. And in thinking that someone else

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. (Lao Tzu Circa 6th Century BC)

You can't go around killing people who insult you or disagree with you or society would be a highly dangerous place.

Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument.

I did not demand that the crows be like me, that their minds resemble my own: I simply cared for them. Why should I base my level of care and concern for them on how much like me they were, rather than loving them for what they were? That I should love only those that resembled myself, and neglect those who lived in other worlds, going about their other lives, seemed absurd to me. Arrogant. I cared for all.

And even if that weren't true, Sikander had never understood how any decent human being could take pride in holding the sincere beliefs of others in contempt.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Like a good harbor, the child therapist offers the besiegedc child physical shelter, tolerance of her defensive preoccupation, and a rare opportunity to let down her guard and rest. Just as a sinking hull must be righted and secured before more lasting repairs can be made, therapy can help a child enduringly heal only after she has been spared further abuse and neglect.

Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.