Quotes about Tolerance

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

At the end of the day, as a grown man, I don't really care what the sexuality of the next man is.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

No, really: I can't fight, I never could. I can't bring myself to dislike anyone enough.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

I believe that people are almost always better than their neighbors think they are," said Dorothea.

she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that men would be so, and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

It would be very petty of us who are well and can bear things, to think much of small offences from those who carry a weight of trial.