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.

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.

The men, who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

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!

No man that lives can satisfy everybody. The recipe for perfect peace is, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

Do battle against prejudice and discrimination wherever you find it.

I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

God requireth not a uniformity of religion.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.