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Quotes about Tolerance

We lose the right of complaining sometimes by forbearing it.
- Laurence Sterne
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.
- George Washington Carver
Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.
- Charles Colson
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
but let us judge not that we be not judged.
- Abraham Lincoln
We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizens of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like the Pharisees set ourselves up to be better than other people.
- Abraham Lincoln
The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.
- Abraham Lincoln
With Malice Towards None
- Abraham Lincoln
Do good to those who hate you and turn their ill will to friendship.
- Abraham Lincoln
We must live with our enemies as if they might one day become our friends, and live with our friends as if they might some time or other become our enemies.
- Alain de Botton
We are idiots now, we have been idiots in the past and we will be idiots again in the future - and that is OK.
- Alain de Botton