Quotes and Sayings about Tolerance
"It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling."
- Pierre Bayle
(Related: Peace, Disorder, Intolerance)
"Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance."
- Kim Campbell
(Related: Equality, Canada, Justice, Tolerance)
"Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society."
- Robert Casey
(Related: Society, Living, Tolerance)
"More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion."
- Alexander Chase
(Related: Religion, People, Care, Religious, Tolerance)
"Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism."
- Linda Chavez
(Related: Muslim, Population, Tolerance)
"Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker."
- Ron Chernow
(Related: Money, American, Risk, Tolerance)
"Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Virtue, Man, Tolerance)
"Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young."
- Emile M. Cioran
(Related: Tolerance)
"For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men."
- Albert Claude
(Related: Faith, Men, Trust, Courage, Ethics, Mankind, Now, Past, Sight, Spirit, Tolerance, Will)
"Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims."
- Morris Raphael Cohen
(Related: Religion, Accidents, Intolerance)
"Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Love, Apathy, Interest, Persecution, Tolerance)
"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Intolerance, Support)
"The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both."
- John Cornyn
(Related: Politics, Religion, Islam, Enemy, Extreme, Intolerance, Minority, Terrorism, Tradition)
"It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom."
- Quentin Crisp
(Related: Boredom, Effect, Facts, Freedom, Repetition, Result, Tolerance)
"The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell."
- Aleister Crowley
(Related: People, Fact, Hell, Intolerance, Religious, Satisfaction)
"Intolerance is evidence of impotence."
- Aleister Crowley
(Related: Intolerance)
"Now, I think that in acknowledging that every individual Member of Parliament and indeed every individual member of the Labour Party, has rights to express their view in a spirit of tolerance."
- Ron Davies
(Related: Rights, Now, Parliament, Party, Spirit, Tolerance)
"I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate."
- Bruce Davison
(Related: Climate, Needs, Tolerance, World)
"The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world."
- Morris Dees
(Related: Education, Equality, Children, Confidence, Focus, Goodness, Horror, Tolerance, World)
"We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future."
- Charlie Dent
(Related: Freedom, Future, Now, Religious, states, Tolerance, United)
"The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other."
- Princess Diana
(Related: Intolerance, Today, World)
"Without tolerance, our world turns into hell."
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
(Related: Hell, Tolerance, World)
"The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision."
- George Eliot
(Related: Vision, Lies, Responsibility, Tolerance)
"Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America."
- Eliot Engel
(Related: America, Bigotry, Discrimination, Intolerance, states, United, World)
"I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis."
- Leslie Fiedler
(Related: Tolerance)
"Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business."
- Malcolm Forbes
(Related: Business, Politics, Being, Democracy, Tolerance)
"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."
- E. M. Forster
(Related: Love, Civilization, Fact, Public, Tolerance)
"Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things."
- E. M. Forster
(Related: Love, People, Negative, Virtue, Being, Press, Tolerance)
"I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance."
- Stephen Fry
(Related: Truth, Freedom, Language, Purity, Tolerance)
"Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Growth, Intolerance, Spirit, Violence)
"Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Faith, Cause, Intolerance, Want)
"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Anger, Enemies, Intolerance, Understanding)
"I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day."
- Mel Gibson
(Related: Opportunity, Successful, Day, Practice, Tolerance)
"Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness."
- James Goldsmith
(Related: Virtue, Apathy, Neighbors, Tolerance, Weakness)
"I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible."
- Alberto Gonzales
(Related: Company, Consequences, Corporate, Fraud, Importance, Tolerance, Want)
"Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about. We will have zero tolerance for anyone who is intolerant."
- Oscar Goodman
(Related: Hatred, Tolerance, Will)
"Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect."
- Scott Hamilton
(Related: People, Effort, Tolerance)
"There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people."
- Paul Harris
(Related: Genius, People, America, Nothing, Religious, Spirit, Today, Tolerance)
"Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting."
- Sydney J. Harris
(Related: Superiority, Egotism, Intolerance)
"Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities."
- Alcee Hastings
(Related: Peace, People, Values, Dignity, Followers, Respect, Tolerance)
"When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: Coffee, Patience, Tolerance, Traveling)
"There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins."
- Isaac Hayes
(Related: Time, Beliefs, Bigotry, Intolerance, Religious, Satire, World)
"Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics."
- Lafcadio Hearn
(Related: Beliefs, Ethics, Tolerance)
"The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one."
- Ethan A. Hitchcock
(Related: Fact, Intolerance)
"It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom."
- Dee Hock
(Related: Wisdom, Trust, Ability, Humility, Judgment, Perspective, Reward, Tolerance)
"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance."
- Eric Hoffer
(Related: Faith, Religion, Intolerance, Profession)
"Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant."
- Sidney Hook
(Related: Limits, Tolerance)
"Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue."
- King Hussein I
(Related: Life, Religion, Lie, Heart, Islam, Difference, Principles, Tolerance, World)
"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Intelligence, Vision, Children, Clarity, Curiosity, Intolerance, Remarkable)
"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."
- Robert Green Ingersoll
(Related: Being, Giving, Right, Tolerance)
"Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie."
- Jay Inslee
(Related: American, Tolerance, Value)
"Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution."
- Jay Inslee
(Related: Constitution, Intolerance)
"Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another."
- Yahya Jammeh
(Related: Peace, Discipline, Freedom, Tolerance, Will)
"I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Act, Intolerance, Opinions, Religious, Right, Will, Word)
"Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace."
- Eddie Bernice Johnson
(Related: Anger, Peace, Management, Conflict, Curriculum, Resolution, Respect, School, Tolerance)
"Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization."
- Arthur Keith
(Related: Civilization, Mind, Tolerance)
"The highest result of education is tolerance."
- Helen Keller
(Related: Education, Result, Tolerance)
"Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Beliefs, Commitment, Oppression, Persecution, Tolerance)
"Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy."
- Abdul Qadeer Khan
(Related: Hatred, Help, Intolerance, Poor, Trying, Violence)
"I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation."
- Coretta Scott King
(Related: Americans, Bigotry, Freedom, Rights, Human rights, Prejudice, Responsibility, Tolerance)
"I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance."
- Frank Knox
(Related: Civilization, Heart, Man, Nothing, Tolerance, Woman)
"I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy."
- Frank Knox
(Related: Quality, Thought, Progress, Liberal, Mercy, Today, Tolerance)
"Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else."
- Walter Koenig
(Related: Religion, Freedom, Name, Persecution, Practice, Religious, Tolerance)
"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."
- Dalai Lama
(Related: Enemy, Practice, Tolerance)
"Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Compromise, Magic, Tolerance, Words, Years)
"Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons."
- Jessica Lange
(Related: Forgiveness, Life, Acceptance, Tolerance)
"Intolerance has been the curse of our country."
- James Larkin
(Related: Country, Intolerance)
"No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance."
- Giacomo Leopardi
(Related: Life, Intolerance)
"House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all."
- Chris Lowe
(Related: Music, Love, Hate, Intolerance, Respect)
"In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order."
- Kamisese Mara
(Related: Peace, Society, Trust, Order, Tolerance, Understanding)
"You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Humor, People, Tolerance)
"Tolerance is another word for indifference."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Indifference, Tolerance, Word)
"Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable."
- Phyllis McGinley
(Related: Tolerance)
"We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive."
- Jeff Miller
(Related: Government, Religion, Church, Democracy, Needs, Order, Tolerance)
"Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form."
- Toni Morrison
(Related: Art, Literature, Tolerance)
"Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence."
- Pervez Musharraf
(Related: Peace, Islam, Brotherhood, Hatred, Tolerance, Violence)
"North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts."
- Nursultan Nazarbayev
(Related: Christianity, Islam, Liberal, Religious, Today, Tolerance, World)
"Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations."
- Russell M. Nelson
(Related: Majority, Minority, Religious, Tolerance)
"America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings."
- Barack Obama
(Related: Progress, Islam, America, Competition, Dignity, Justice, Principles, Tolerance)
"People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it."
- Carl Olson
(Related: People, American, Bugs, Tolerance)
"I believe that the capital of the Republic of Albania is a suitable venue for discussing the dialogue among religions and civilizations, notably in the countries of South East Europe, because we are well familiar with this country's track record of religious tolerance."
- Georgi Purvanov
(Related: Countries, Country, Europe, Religious, Tolerance)
"Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance."
- Timothy Radcliffe
(Related: Truth, Intolerance, Violence)
"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."
- Agnes Repplier
(Related: Humor, Irony, Tolerance, Understanding)
"I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people."
- Pat Robertson
(Related: People, Tolerance)
"Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians."
- Mitt Romney
(Related: Marriage, Americans, Intolerance, Majority)
"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."
- George Santayana
(Related: Egotism, Intolerance)
"And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: People, Compassion, Kindness, Tolerance)
"What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be."
- Ridley Scott
(Related: Play, Tolerance)
"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason."
- Charles de Secondat
(Related: Religion, Fact, Intolerance, Reason, Religious, Spirit)
"The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx."
- Jose Serrano
(Related: Living, Today, Tolerance, Value, World)
"The election is over, and even though there are people who have different ideologies and beliefs, from now on we must all embrace each other, creating a harmonious and unified new Taiwan through our love and tolerance."
- Chen Shui-bian
(Related: Love, People, Beliefs, Now, Tolerance)
"Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue."
- Charles Simmons
(Related: Argument, Bigotry, Fire, Intolerance, Old, Persecution, Silence, Tongue)
"Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism."
- Manmohan Singh
(Related: Work, Challenge, Law, Terrorism, Tolerance, Unity)
"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."
- Ralph W. Sockman
(Related: Courage, Majority, Minority, Tolerance)
"Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music."
- Bruce Springsteen
(Related: Music, Acceptance, Tolerance)
"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."
- Wallace Stevens
(Related: Art, Religion, People, Intolerance)
"It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject."
- Joseph Story
(Related: Government, Power, Act, Ambition, Bigotry, Consciousness, Intolerance, Pride, Spiritual)
"A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year."
- Paul Sweeney
(Related: Wedding, Love, Trust, Order, Partnership, Tenacity, Tolerance)
"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature."
- Voltaire
(Related: Nature, Error, First, Folly, Humanity, Law, Tolerance)
"Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men."
- Voltaire
(Related: Men, Christian, Now, Tolerance)
"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
- Claude Vorilhon
(Related: History, Mistakes, Nothing)
"A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: Money, Power, Deceit, Intolerance, Lust, Nations, Violence)
"Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance."
- Montel Williams
(Related: American, Tolerance)
"It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others."
- Wendell Willkie
(Related: Thinking)
"Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe."
- Virginia Woolf
(Related: Heart, Charity, Mind, Rest, Senses, Tolerance)
"Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution."
- William Butler Yeats
(Related: Intolerance, Legislation, Open, Persecution, Religious)
"Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not."
- Slavoj Zizek
(Related: Capitalism, Democracy, Rights, Liberal, Old, Question, Saying, Socialism, Today, Tolerance, Want)