Tolerance Quotes - Page 22

Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere, which is what breeds that sort of thinking - this is better than this, that is better than that.

If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are.

In the course of the world, a man must very often put on an easy, frank countenance, upon very disagreeable occasions; he must seem pleased, when he is very much otherwise; he must be able to accost and receive with smiles, those whom he would much rather meet with swords.

Unless you can point to something that I have done or said that has changed the course of the public opinion in a negative way, you've got to check yourself sometimes and say, "Maybe I don't like the way that this thing is said, but it's expanding tolerance." If I said something that was shutting down something that was positive, call me out, but I don't really see me doing that.

The thematic core of X-Men is tolerance. It's that for those of us who are different in any way - in a big way - whether it's you're a minority, you're a woman, you're a Muslim, you are suppressed or marginalized; it can go the whole spectrum, but even if you are shy or you feel like an outsider, and X-Men are outsiders.

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we're called to so much more than that in the body of Christ.

We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.

The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.

The best creed we can have is charity toward the creeds of others.

The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down.

With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin.

One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

It's important to cultivate a tolerance and patience with uncomfortable feelings. It's best to feel them.