Tolerance Quotes

The highest result of education is tolerance. (Helen Keller)
Tolerance is only another name for indifference. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance. View quote
Kim Campbell
The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision. View quote
George Eliot
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young. View quote
Emil Cioran
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling. View quote
Pierre Bayle
Without tolerance, our world turns into hell. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order. View quote
Kamisese Mara
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. View quote
Voltaire
Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons. View quote
Jessica Lange
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. View quote
Ralph W. Sockman
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. View quote
Stephen Fry
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation. View quote
Coretta Scott King
He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it. View quote
Don DeLillo
Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline. (William Butler Yeats)
Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. View quote
Jacques Barzun
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. View quote
Toni Morrison
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. View quote
Albert Einstein