Tolerance Quotes - Page 11

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.

We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we tend to pursue our own interests at the expense of others. Our various religious traditions exist to help us reduce these problems. They all teach ways to overcome suffering through cultivating love and compassion, tolerance, patience and contentment.

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that I personify the great tolerance of Britain by consenting to being regally entertained. Besides, there is a degree of truth in the view that while the left are worthier, the right are wittier.

In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

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

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.

The moral decisions of others should be treated with respect, as long as such decisions do not conflict with the principle of tolerance.

Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

Having a traditional view of marriage should not be seen as discriminatory, unfortunately the bill has promoted this notion. It has not created tolerance and has highlighted division.

Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

Let every man come to God in his own way.

Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.