Quotes on Tolerance

To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon one another with respect and tolerance instead of prejudice, distrust and hatred. We will have to teach our children-as well as ourselves-to love the diversity of humanity....We can do it. Yes, you and I and all of us together. Now is the time. Now is the only possible time. Let the Great Healing begin.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion.

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

I want to be a positive role model, especially for kids and Aboriginal people... When people see me, often all they see is another Australian athlete having a go. It isn't until they see the full Cathy Freeman picture that they realise how proud I am of my ancestry and heritage. I'd like a little more tolerance and acceptance of my culture and all the differing cultures that make up Australia.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.