Quotes about Tolerance

Never judge someone by their relatives.

No one should be harassed or mistreated because of who they are, who they love, or what they believe.

Trying to be patient with people without loving them is like expecting there to be heat without actually lighting the torch.

I want a kinder, gentler nation.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.

If moral relativism was legally absolutized in the name of tolerance, basic rights were also relativized and the door was open to totalitarianism.

Most talk of a catholic spirit but it is only till they have been brought into the pale of their own church. This is downright sectarianism, not Catholicism. How can I act consistently, unless I receive and love all the children of God, whom I esteem to be such, of whatever denomination they may be?

It is often better not to see an insult, than to avenge it.

Patient endurance attends to all things.

An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.

A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.