Quotes About Tolerance In Society

#1. Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.

Dalai Lama

#2. If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. - In

Karl Popper

#3. Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.

Robert Casey

#4. A classical liberal is someone who wants a society that maximizes peace, civility, tolerance, and well-being for everyone. One that opens opportunities for everyone to advance themselves.

Charles Koch

#5. Should we tolerate the blatant incorrectness of religion? Tolerating ignorance, superstition and stupidity will not provide for a healthy advancement of our society. Religion is cancer for modern thought, rationality, and even common sense.

Odin Zeus McGaffer

#6. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

Karl R. Popper

#7. What does the gay movement mean when it says tolerance? ... It means absolutely unconditionally accepting it as perfectly normal, healthy, natural and something that should be integrated into every part of society.

Scott Lively

#8. Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

Aristotle.

#9. Confronted with such flagrant acts of intolerance - such abuses of the freedom of speech - a free society must surely do more. For intolerance is the one thing a free society cannot afford to tolerate.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#10. Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.

Charles Colson

#11. I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#12. Understanding is the assassin of bigotry, and lays a strong foundation upon which to build a tolerant society.

Narissa Doumani

#13. Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse ... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the entire society. The message they currently communicate is harsh and unambiguous: religion is offensive and should be kept out of public view.

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#14. After all, a society with such an enlightened tolerance of corruption and savagery needed to bear down hard on minor offenses to convince itself that it still had standards.

Dean Koontz

#15. In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

Robert A. Heinlein

#16. My hope is that we're going to end up with a far more tolerant society, where the erosion of privacy, to the extent it erodes, will be offset by increased tolerance.

Peter Thiel

#17. How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance
the one value that is indispensable in creating community.

Barbara Jordan

#18. We have the right and the responsibility to be intolerant of those things which should not be tolerated.

Auliq Ice

#19. In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

Kamisese Mara

#20. Religion doesn't divide the society. The humans reading the wrong books to understand religion, do.

Abhijit Naskar

#21. In Switzerland, we have a centuries-old tradition of living together in one confederation and one society. That holds us back from excesses. We are a civilized and enlightened community and, by practising multicultural tolerance, we manage to stop extreme developments from going too far.

Klaus Schwab

#22. American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#23. 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.

Liu Xiaobo

#24. The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

George Bernard Shaw

#25. Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

George Bernard Shaw

#26. Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.

Muhammad Ali

#27. Pluralism and tolerance are pillars of modern society. That has to be accepted. But pluralism doesn't just mean diversity. It means that we share the same rules and values, and are still nevertheless different. Islam doesn't have this idea. And Islam also has no tradition of tolerance.

Bassam Tibi

#28. It is only through love, tolerance, humility and the understanding of our own fragility that we can begin to find our humanity and, in turn, extend that humanity to others.

Tosha Michelle

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.

Nelson Mandela