Quotes about Tolerance

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions. ( Essay to Leo Baeck , 1953)

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

For human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate.

human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate. Only understanding for our neighbors, justice in our dealings, and willingness to help our fellow men can give human society permanence and assure security for the individual.

It is human variability -- the fact that one man's meat is is another man's poison -- that imposes on us the duty of preserving individual liberty and of encouraging tolerance, of preventing majorities from repressing minorities, of permitting people to have a certain measure of self-determination in their lives.

Wisdom never puts enmity anywhere.

For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today.