Not Tolerance Quotes

#1. Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

#2. Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.

Chester Himes

#3. There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance ... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

Foster Friess

#4. Tolerance for intolerance is not tolerance at all.

Bruce Bawer

#5. Right is not this or that doctrine or opinion; right is rational discussion about shared experience between honorable people leading to mutual understanding and tolerance.

Dee Hock

#6. It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment.

Criss Jami

#7. I believe sarcasm is the passive form of rudeness and should not be tolerated in the Body of Christ.

Sean Feucht

#8. Tolerance, meanwhile, is about learning how to be patient. It's about learning how to understand that people will not always be the best of themselves, but that you have to give them a chance.

E.M. Garver

#9. It's the responsibility of men of religion to ... present religion as a way of tolerance, not as a cover for bloodshed.

Salam Fayyad

#10. Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

N. T. Wright

#11. We are not going to confine women to the home, cover their heads, lengthen their skirts, or beat up gay people, prohibit alcohol, censure film, theater, and literature, and codify tolerance in order to respect the overly sensitive whims of a few sanctimonious persons.

Pascal Bruckner

#12. Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.

Richard Baxter

#13. Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.

Erica Jong

#14. Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

Ayn Rand

#15. All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.

Roger Ebert

#16. Tolerance is thin gruel compared to the rapture of absolute truths. It's not surprising that religious people are often better protected by atheists and agnostics than each other.

Wendy Kaminer

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

W. Somerset Maugham

#18. The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain.. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

Thomas S. Monson

#19. America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.

Fulton J. Sheen

#20. Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged

Rumi

#21. 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.'

N. T. Wright

#22. Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity.

Zack Love

#23. Irrespective of whether you are sexually active of not, being sexually empowered is a vital element of being able to create a society with zero tolerance for sexual violence.

Miya Yamanouchi

#24. Living in society, we must share the suffering of our fellow citizens and practice compassion and tolerance not only toward our loved ones but also toward our enemies.

Dalai Lama XIV

#25. Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

Heinrich Heine

#26. Religion comes not where reign fundamentalism and authoritarianism.

Abhijit Naskar

#27. There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.

David Romtvedt

#28. Do not be someone looking for [insert]. Be [insert] looking for someone. Suggestions for [insert]: - love - friendship - understanding - appreciation - tolerance - a helping hand - a leg up - an answer

Robert Breault

#29. You always have to compromise," Gene said. An incredible statement and totally untrue in his case. "You found the perfect wife. Highly intelligent, extremely beautiful, and she lets you have sex with other women." Gene suggested that I not congratulate Claudia in person for her tolerance,

Anonymous

#30. The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.

Shannon L. Alder

#31. Discrimination against nonwhites will not be tolerated. Discrimination against whites is fine-as long as the discrimination is done in the name of nondiscrimination.

Jared Taylor

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

Toni Morrison

#33. Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential.

Scott Belsky

#34. The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.

Judith Martin

#35. Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.

Emile Durkheim

#36. The disease of intolerance is not communicated only in religious groups. I've seen it infect racial groups, economic groups and even whole nations (where it is often cleverly disguised as patriotism). Intolerance always fences people out. It creates one group we call US. And the rest we call THEM.

Steve Goodier

#37. Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task. And I also learned that if we did not devote ourselves to developing effective world law, the same cruel mentality that made the Holocaust possible might one day destroy the entire human race.

Benjamin B. Ferencz

#38. The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. No matter whether you are learned or not, whether you believe in the next life or not, whether you believe in God or Buddha or some other religion or not, in day-to-day life you must be a kind person.

Dalai Lama

#39. I have no tolerance for maudlin affection, and less for women who want to fix me."
"Fix you?" Miranda said. "Why would anyone want to fix you? You're not broken.

Courtney Milan

#40. Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.

Zhuangzi

#41. Tolerance is NOT acceptance. And that's the problem with ALL religion. It teaches acceptance only for those who believe exactly as you do, and at best, tolerance for the rest of us "sinners." Sorry. Not acceptable.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#42. It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

Quentin Crisp

#43. I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy.

Andrew Lansley

#44. Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about. We will have zero tolerance for anyone who is intolerant.

Oscar Goodman

#45. The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#46. I had not yet learned that one cannot really be superior without humility and tolerance and human understanding. I did not yet know that in order to belong to a rare and higher breed one must first develop the true power and talent of selfless immolation.

Thomas Wolfe

#47. Self-proclaimed saviors and other outliers come and go throughout our political history. Occasionally, they're successful; most times, they're not. But the system has rebalanced toward the basic principles of tolerance, freedom and democracy that were set forth by the Founders.

David Ignatius

#48. She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

Edith Wharton

#49. What's important is the tolerance. If people are not beating other people up, or shooting them for being different, then that's progress. Even if the ideas that go through their head are fodder for novelists.

Nell Zink

#50. Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty
these are Christian values.

Charles J. Chaput

#51. Human beings are worthy of the highest respect but not all opinions and beliefs are worthy of respect and tolerance. There are some who believe in fascism, white supremacy, the inferiority of women. Must those beliefs be respected? There is a big difference between the two.

Maryam Namazie

#52. The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

Vijay Prashad

#53. Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance.

Vladimir Franz

#54. My daughter has pointed out that there were not enough lovejobs to go around in this new world. In any event, I probably learned tolerance, maybe even literary affection for the person in the wrong historical moment, living such long, never to be mediate wars with other sufferers.

Grace Paley

#55. I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism; and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space.

David Blunkett

#56. Parents' tolerance of violence is so different to their tolerance of sexuality. If violence is involved in the sexuality it's somehow perceived as entertainment, but if love is involved with sexuality it's seen as pornographic and is not acceptable.

Ryan Gosling

#57. Having a traditional view of marriage should not be seen as discriminatory, unfortunately the bill has promoted this notion. It has not created tolerance and has highlighted division.

Jim Dobbin

#58. Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

W. Somerset Maugham

#59. Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.

King Hussein I

#60. You also wonder if a restaurant placed an ad that read, "Only homeless need apply," would they get fined? Probably not. But if they said, "No homeless apply," they would be transient bigots. For as bureaucrats use language to punish the lawful, they use tolerance to coddle the troubled.

Greg Gutfeld

#61. Intolerance is the 'Do Not Touch' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.

Eric Hoffer

#62. Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.

Barack Obama

#63. 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.

Albert Einstein

#64. How much truth can we bear? Our tolerance for carrying the truth is not very high. I mean, the slightest discomfort about truth and we run to our refuge of our jobs and our schools and our friends who keep supporting our blindness.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#65. My path is not a better path, it is simply a different path.

Donald L. Hicks

#66. Another possibility is that competition for resources flared up into violence and genocide. Tolerance is not a Sapiens trademark. In modern times, a small difference in skin colour, dialect or religion has been enough to prompt one group of Sapiens to set about exterminating another group. Would

Yuval Noah Harari

#67. Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection.

Benjamin Barber

#68. [ ... ] pluralism implies religious tolerance, not unchecked religious freedom.

Reza Aslan

#69. There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

W. Somerset Maugham

#70. Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister.

Ernest Hemingway,

#71. A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it ... You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.

Jodi Picoult

#72. We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

Margaret Chase Smith

#73. If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.

Gene Roddenberry

#74. Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.

Herbert Hoover

#75. Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From it, we get the sort of intellectual tolerance that allows me to propound something that may be completely alien to you.

John Rhys-Davies

#76. Tolerance is not infinite patience, but slain patience; patience that has lost its hope and love and has thrown in the towel.

Criss Jami

#77. The basis of democracy is tolerance to criticism. If you can't face criticism, if you can't accept it, then you cannot guard democracy, you are not eligible for it.

Narendra Modi

#78. Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent, Sazed said quietly.

Brandon Sanderson

#79. Disagreement based on LEGITIMATE IJTIHAD which does not create DISCORD or DISUNITY is a BLESSING for the UMMAH and an enrichment of ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE. Objective disagreement in itself poses no threat if it is coupled with TOLERANCE and is free of FANATICISM, ACCUSATIONS, and NARROW-MINDEDNESS.

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

#80. I think we have to understand that when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide. We should not allow the Muslim Brotherhood or associated groups to be influencing our national security strategy.

Allen West

#81. For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.

Dennis Prager

#82. Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.

Hosea Ballou

#83. Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

Jacques Barzun

#84. It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#85. We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we will always defend it.

Ahmad Shah Massoud

#86. If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission.

Flemming Rose

#87. America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

Barack Obama

#88. The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.

Mahatma Gandhi

#89. Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

Parwez Musharraf

#90. If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.

Brene Brown

#91. You have to look at people now that were members of the Klu Klux Klan or whatever else and now are trying to rewrite their personal histories to tell that they've always been tolerant. It's not peculiar to want to sanitize what you did.

Ruth Hanna Sachs

#92. The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what's immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.

J. C. Watts

#93. We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer others' generosity to their meanness. And who among us does not prefer tolerance, respect, and forgiveness of our failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment? In

Dalai Lama XIV

#94. Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#95. I believe in Christian charity, but I don't believe in Christian tolerance ... When we become so tolerate that we lead people into mental fog and spiritual darkness, we are not acting like Christians; we are acting like cowards!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#96. If the only time a child looks as if he has bipolar disorder is when he's frustrated, that's not bipolar disorder; that's a learning disability in the domains of flexibility and frustration tolerance.

Ross W. Greene

#97. The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant ...

George Eliot

#98. Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness.
They are signs of strength.

Dalai Lama

#99. Tolerance does not ... do anything, embrace anyone, champion any issue. It wipes the notes off the score of life and replaces them with one long bar of rest. It does not attack error, it does not champion truth, it does not hate evil, it does not love good.

Walter Farrell

#100. Hinduism as a faith might espouse tolerance, this does not necessarily mean that all Hindus behave tolerantly.

Shashi Tharoor