Tolerance Quotes

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

~ Kahlil Gibran

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.

~ Mary Allsebrook

The building is rather like a medieval Castle and was established in the Sixth Century and soon afterwards, as the Moslem armies advanced Westwards from the Arabian Peninsula, somebody had the prescience to build a small Mosque in its courtyard to guard against it being burned or demolished. At the time of the Crusades it was the turn of the Monastery to protect the Mosque, and so it has been down the ages, each House of God extending its shelter to the other as opposing armies came and went.

~ Ahdaf Soueif

For peace, let us teach the humanity, tolerance and nonviolence.

~ Debasish Mridha

For peace, let us teach humanity tolerance and nonviolence.

~ Debasish Mridha

I’ve matured. I have a much higher tolerance for boredom.

~ Tom Perrotta

What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Discrimination against nonwhites will not be tolerated. Discrimination against whites is fine-as long as the discrimination is done in the name of nondiscrimination.

~ Jared Taylor

We need a new religion, a global religion, based on one simple principle: live and let live.

~ Marty Rubin

Tolerance. In all my years of debating politics and religion no mind was changed with derision and no thought convicted by way of harshness. You have no right to demand tolerance while deriding others and their beliefs in the process. Want tolerance? Extend it. You’ll be surprised because given it, people will actually listen.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.

~ Voltaire

Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel, it is merely individuals who exert their will on others.

~ Sujata Massey

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.[Carnap’s famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.]

~ Rudolf Carnap

Margaret Attwood: “I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one race – the human race – and that we are all members of it.”Amen to that, I say. (Tom Bryson)

~ Tom Bryson

Provoking separatist hatreds is an aggressive weed. We all have dirty hands and a broken heart. Put down your flag before you put down your weapons. If you must raise a flag, be sure it says, “We is better than you or I.” We will not persecute, nor tolerate persecution. We will not dominate, nor tolerate subjugation.

~ Mikhayla Gracey

As Christians we must realize there are millions of people in the world (indeed, within the Christian faith) who do not live by our worldview, and we must learn how to interact with them, love them, and tolerate them.

~ Holly Sprink

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

Did it ever occur to you, Charlie, that tolerance can reach a point where it is no longer tolerance? When that happens, the noble-sounding attitude on which most of us pride ourselves degenerates into weakness and acquiescence.

~ Grace Metalious

On the Races of Our Continuum:“First, you should understand that we are all The One’s children and that means we are all family. As one of my parents liked to say, “One, two, or three caudal orifices, it really doesn’t matter, for it still gets all the work done.” I like to say that we do not all look alike, but we all think alike.”The Great Siblinghood, Tymorann Alphrontex (as translated by D. J. Kenny)

~ D.j. Kenny

All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.

~ Roger Ebert

Ty swung around. He was obviously fed up with Ben's negative attitude.

~ Lauren Brooke

There is an important distinction to be drawn between tolerance of homosexuality and tolerance of sex tourism.

~ Brian Whitaker

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil … a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons … never to truth. Tolerance applies to the erring, intolerance to the error … Architects are as intolerant about sand as foundations for skyscrapers as doctors are intolerant about germs in the laboratory. Tolerance does not apply to truth or principles. About these things we must be intolerant, and for this kind of intolerance, so much needed to rouse us from sentimental gush, I make a plea. Intolerance of this kind is the foundation of all stability.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which, long cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of the gas chamber.

~ Flannery O'connor

Never complain about what you permit to be.

~ Orrin Woodward

Tolerance, which is one form of love of neighbor, must manifest itself not only in our personal relations, but also in the arena of society as well. In the world of opinion and politics, tolerance is that virtue by which liberated minds conquer the evils of bigotry and hatred. Tolerance implies more than forbearance or the passive enduring of ideas different from our own. Properly conceived, tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another’s beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them. Tolerance quickens our appreciation and increases our respect for our neighbor’s point of view. It goes even further; it assumes a militant aspect when the rights of an opponent are assailed. Voltaire’s dictum, “I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,” is for all ages and places the perfect utterance of the tolerant ideal.

~ Joshua Loth Liebman

Every second you spend holding someone else back is time not running the race yourself.

~ Rebecca Murphy

A tolerance that no longer distinguishes between good and evil would become chaotic and self-destructive, just as a freedom that did not respect the freedom of others or find the common measure of our respective liberties would become anarchy and destroy authority.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

Love of God thus becomes the dominant passion of life; like every other worth-while love, it demands and inspires sacrifice. But love of God and man, as an ideal, has lately been replaced by the new ideal of tolerance which inspires no sacrifice. Why should any human being in the world be merely tolerated? What man has ever made a sacrifice in the name of tolerance? It leads men, instead, to express their own egotism in a book or a lecture that patronizes the downtrodden group. One of the cruelest things that can happen to a human being is to be tolerated. Never once did Our Lord say, “Tolerate your enemies!” But He did say, “Love your enemies; do good to them that hate you” (Matt. 5:44). Such love can be achieved only if we deliberately curb our fallen nature’s animosities.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

When my little group get together, if we disagree about something, we can sort it out. Example: Mohona Hossain hates Divargiit Singh. Hates all his movies. Hates him with a passion. She likes that other fool with the eyelashes like a lady! But we compromise. Never once have I burned a single video of hers.

~ Zadie Smith

Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that you are alone in the world or alone in being good and right in the world. Exposure to diversity, on the contrary, is the basis for relativism and tolerance; when you are forced to face and accept the Other as real, unavoidable, and ultimately valuable, you cannot help but see yourself and your 'truths' in a new - and trouble - way.

~ Jack David Eller

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

~ Milan Kundera

The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are today being manipulated and erroneously taken too far.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

~ Leslie Fiedler

The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad.

~ Norman Davies

Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength.

~ Charles Lindbergh

A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.

~ Carolina Herrera

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

~ Kim Campbell

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

~ Alexander Chase