Quotes about Tolerance

Queequeg explained to me that his world was very different from ours. However, one thing he learned quickly, was that within all groups of people there are kind men and there are unkind men.

Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also. But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.

see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.

see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or their age, so you ridicule their pretension or their ego instead. You can ridicule ideas - ideas don't have feelings. You can ridicule an idea that someone holds without hurting them.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

You just try to be nice to everybody and treat them all the same. Treat them how you would want to be treated.

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

As a people, I am afraid, we tend too often to brush aside with impatience, sometimes with discourtesy, customs and points of view which are alien to us.