Quotes about Tolerance
Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
- Laurence Sterne
This idea that it's intolerant to object to anyone else's position, hovever, is a complete perversion of the historic understanding of tolrance, which was that one had to have the respect to listen to anyone else's point of view, even one with which one might profoundly disagree. Tolerance did not reject truth claims; it respected them.
- Charles Colson
The men, who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
- Charles Dickens
He was a mere child in the world, but he didn't cry for the moon. He said to the world, 'Go your several ways in peace! Wear red coats, blue coats, lawn-sleeves, put pens behind your ears, wear aprons; go after glory, holiness, commerce, trade, any object you prefer; only - let Harold Skimpole live!
- Charles Dickens
No man that lives can satisfy everybody. The recipe for perfect peace is, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
Hate is a lack of imagination.
- Graham Greene
I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Do battle against prejudice and discrimination wherever you find it.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
God requireth not a uniformity of religion.
- Roger Williams
We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.
- Desmond Tutu