Tolerance Quotes - page 3

As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to about 1975, to find not an expression of base and cynical impulses but of good, old-fashioned liberal humanism of a kind that may strike us today, God help us, as quaint, but which nevertheless appealed, in story after story, to ideals such as tolerance, technological optimism, and self-sacrifice for the benefit of others. (Michael Chabon)
Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions which is the love of God. Forgiveness, compassion, tolerance, brotherhood and the feeling of oneness are the signs of a true religion. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings. View quote
Will Durant
Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.' View quote
N.T. Wright
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. View quote
Thomas Mann
We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference. View quote
Margaret Chase Smith
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. (Paul Sweeney)
Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way. View quote
Gordon B. Hinckley
We must work harder to build mutual respect, an attitude of tolerance, with forbearance one for another. View quote
Gordon B. Hinckley
It's the responsibility of men of religion to ... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed. View quote
Salam Fayyad
Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality. View quote
Barack Obama
Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. View quote
Barack Obama
Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance. View quote
Leo Strauss
I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor. ... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger. View quote
Winston Churchill
World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance. View quote
Robert Thurman
Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance, and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential. (Scott Belsky)
Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable. View quote
Phyllis McGinley
Business is not a spiritual matter, and my business decisions are not based on spiritual considerations. When I founded the Essence of Life, a project aimed at teaching tolerance and respectful dialogue, the person appointed to head it was Irit Atzmon, a former colonel in the army. Can anything be more down-to-earth than that? View quote
Shari Arison
... generally speaking, Muslim tolerance of unbelievers was far better than anything available in Christendom, until the rise of secularism in the 17th century. View quote
Bernard Lewis
You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low. View quote
Bernie Mac