Tolerance Quotes And Sayings

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“What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding?”
– Elvis Costello

“Let all listen, and be willing to listen to the doctrines professed by others.”
– Emperor Ashoka of India

“The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves.”
– Eric Hoffer

“The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor’s shortcomings as he is of his own.”
– Eric Hoffer

“We are going forward with the idea of a multicultural , a multinational state, trying to live in unity, at the same time respecting our diversity…But we need to all come together so we can live united.”
– Evo Morales

” Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.”
– Father Dominique Pire

“Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.”
– Federico Mayor

“The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.”
– Felix Adler

“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.”
– Friedrich Durrenmatt

“Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.”
– Friedrich Durrenmatt

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.”
– Fulton J. Sheen

“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life’s exciting variety, not something to fear.”
– Gene Roddenberry

“The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.”
– George Eliot

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.”
– George Washington Carver

“No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.”
– Giacomo Leopardi

“If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.”
– Glennon Melton

“He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.”
– H.G. Wells

“If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.”
– Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.”
– Hedy Lamarr

“When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.”
– Helen Hayes

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
– Helen Keller

“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”
– Helen Keller

“I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.”
– Henry Rollins

“It is not for me to judge another man’s life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
– Hermann Hesse

“Tolerance can lead to learning something.”
– Jakob Dylan

” Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.”
– Jane Goodall

“Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.”
– Jessica Lange

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