Quotes about Tolerance

A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.

You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?

On the other hand, she was disproportionately indulgent towards the failings of men, and was often heard to say that these were natural.

A Muslim must not hate his wife and if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with another that is good.

Look for something good in each person, even if for some people you have to look a little harder.

My Son, take it not sadly to heart, if any think ill of thee, and say of thee what thou art unwilling to hear.

Experience (has) long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can when we cannot do all we would wish.

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image.