Tolerance Quotes

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

The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice.

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.

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

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

Tolerance cannot seduce the young.

He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

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

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

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.

People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the heart, and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive.

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.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

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.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Tolerance for intolerance is not tolerance at all.

Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

The value of free expression is perceived to be at odds with goals that were considered 'more important,' like inclusiveness, diversity, nondiscrimination, and tolerance.

There are some people who have a low tolerance for criticism. I'm not one of those people.

Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy.

But Colin's only understanding of love was of limitless loyalty, boundless tolerance.

Those who are unprepared to demonstrate tolerance cannot expect or even demand tolerance for themselves.

Tolerance is the one essential ingredient ... You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.

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.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.

Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance.

I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.

You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.

Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

As state and local laws mutate and change in favor of greater tolerance, perhaps cannabis will find it's proper place in the home medicine chest.

The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

You can't reduce lactic acid, but you can increase your tolerance to it. I do this through running or cycling, but it's a good idea to match your training bout to the type of dance you do.

Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions.

My tolerance for tears is very little when you're beautiful and crying over nothing.

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'

One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.