Quotes about Tolerance

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

The author says those who often claim to be tolerant are tolerant of those who agree with them — which is no one's definition of tolerance.

Christians get very angry at those who sin differently than they do.

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

How readily we push Jesus Christ off his judgment seat and take our place there to pronounce on others (though we've neither the knowledge nor the authority to judge anyone.) None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know, we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another.

How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.

To care for others requires an ever-increasing acceptance.

detach ourselves from making our individual experience the criterion for our approach to others

I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for conforming to the laws of the land. I am but too ready to conform to them.

Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.