Tolerance Quotes - Page 16

It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.

Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.

It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can be in the company of others.

Today, sensitivities are at an all-time high - and rightfully so. Tolerance of different races and religions have been lacking over the years, but pluralism has given way to relativism.

I'm not easily offended. I have a pretty high tolerance for raunchiness or shock value, so I'm the wrong person to use as a gauge.

No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate in which limits may be established, in which there are principles to be respected. That is why tolerance is not coexistence with the intolerable. Under an authoritarian regime, in which authority is abused, or a permissive one, in which freedom is not limited, one can hardly learn tolerance. Tolerance requires respect, discipline, and ethics.

There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.

Tolerance and tranquility are two characteristics of true love.

Firmly believe that terrorism, in any shape or form, is against humanity. There should be zero tolerance towards terrorism.

Honestly, I just have to do what's right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.

Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.

Religious tolerance does not mean one cannot express his own beliefs. It does mean that seeking to undermine or attack the religious faith and beliefs of another has always been a short road to trouble.

No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – sociopathy, narcissism – because it’s good rock and roll, good entertainment! I have a low tolerance for manipulative, egomaniacal behaviour, and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill.

The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance the global embrace of egoic-rationality (on the way to centauric vision-logic).

I have insisted that we must be tolerant. But I also believe that this tolerance has its limits. We must not trust those anti-humanitarian religions which not only preach destruction but act accordingly. For if we tolerate them, then we become ourselves responsible for for their deeds.

If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

Persuasion occurs when trust and confidence meet belief, risk tolerance, and safety.

The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.”

The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless.