Quotes About Being Tolerant

#1. If being tolerant of differing opinions, if believing that America has to make it as a pluralistic nation, if being civil, if that makes you a liberal, I plead guilty.

Bill Moyers

#2. There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#3. Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

Dick Gregory

#4. Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different.

Paulo Freire

#5. Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

Viktor E. Frankl

#6. I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom.

Robert H. Schuller

#7. The days of me being "tolerant" are long gone. The days of me being "intolerant" have just begun.

James D. Sass

#8. He was very clever, he gave the impression of being tolerant and kind, while actually being very dark, very cunning.

Louise Penny

#9. I suppose all our lives must be at the end of a long chain of improbable coincidences,

Bill Bryson

#10. A petty one, but most resentments are. And one that for its smallness I felt obliged to repress. For that matter, that is the nature of resentment, the objection we cannot express. It is silence more than the complaint itself that makes the emotion so toxic, like poisons the body won't pee away.

Lionel Shriver

#11. Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.

Franklin P. Jones

#12. I do believe in the sanctity of marriage ... But I don't see that as conflict with being a tolerant person or an understanding person.

George W. Bush

#13. The witchlight cut into the shadows that seemed to hang in the room like a living thing. Emma wondered how big the cave really was, and how much of it was a shifting illusion.

Cassandra Clare

#14. We are being challenged by Islam these years. There are some things for which one should display no tolerance. And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.

Margrethe II Of Denmark

#15. How far you go in life depends on
your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving and
tolerant of the weak and strong.
Because someday in your life
you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

#16. I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.

Phyllis McGinley

#17. Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory, they are the most susceptible to being discouraged.

Jim Elliot

#18. Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.

Jorge Luis Borges

#19. I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.

Amy Chua

#20. As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time being wasted.

Cindy Crawford

#21. I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.

Jane Fonda

#22. America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being - confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented - is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced.

Dinesh D'Souza

#23. I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

Orhan Pamuk

#24. A terrorist attack is like a wasp sting. It may be very painful, but it does not kill the host. It only makes the host more determined to find the nest and destroy it.

Karlyle Tomms

#25. My biggest resource is my mind.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#26. One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal as a professor should be to conduct oneself as an admirable human being: just, kind, tolerant, competent, committed, and good-humored.

Robert Audi

#27. In the end, all things, even the Beams, serve the Dark Tower. Did you think you would be any different?

Stephen King

#28. If I just stuck to pot I might have found out what a drag being an aging hipster actually was.

Lenny Bruce

#29. I just want to keep working. Longevity is really important. I am extremely passionate about what I do and the happiest I am is when I'm on set working. I suppose longevity and respect. It takes longevity to earn respect.

Chris Zylka

#30. The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.

Cyril Connolly

#31. A gazelle runs faster than us; cockroaches are remarkably tolerant of radiation; every being has some superiority; in remembering this, be very humble!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#32. It appears that the ground of being which underlies
and sustains us despite our various inadequate and
conflicting stories must be extremely tolerant, generous,
and forgiving. All things considered, it wouldn't hurt
if we were, too.

Alexei Panshin

#33. Dear, she's not tolerant at all of our being Jewish," said Mrs. Rosen. "She has no problem with it that requires any.

Michael Kroft

#34. I can be tolerant of traffic jams and disorganization, faulty technology, miserable weather, and bland foods. People, however, require more than the cold, grudging favor of being tolerated. They require love.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#35. Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.

Vance Havner

#36. I continue to be surprised by judgmental native stereotypes and apathy, but if I wasn't that would mean I'd become accustomed and tolerant. I don't want to stop being surprised. I just want them to stop.

Red Haircrow

#37. People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.

Vance Havner

#38. Sometimes too much tolerance can kill you.If you are tolerant of people poisoning themselves to death they will drag you down. They will ruin your life by being intentional obstacles to your dreams.

Ted Nugent