Quotes About Tolerance

#1. Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all.

Ray A. Davis

#2. Respect is a close relative of tolerance, and both go a long way to prevent and alleviate the negative interactions between and among people. Respect was a member of each Lakota household during the free-roaming buffalo-hunting days on the northern plains.

Joseph M. Marshall III

#3. The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

Joel Salatin

#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. Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

Russell M. Nelson

#6. Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.

Dalai Lama

#7. It's evident to anyone paying attention that zero tolerance equals 100 percent stupidity. But you have to understand that zero-tolerance rules aren't about protecting kids. They exist to protect the adults who are too cowardly to make judgments.

Jonathan V. Last

#8. Devoted to principles of liberty, equality, and religious tolerance
which, dear internet, is not necessarily the same thing as satanism
Masonic lodge became the de facto clubhouses of the Age of Reason.

Sarah Vowell

#9. Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

Jay Inslee

#10. Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect.

Richard John Neuhaus

#11. Peace is not the absence of intolerance
Peace is a way of life with joy of tolerance.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.

Criss Jami

#13. I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.

Michael E. DeBakey

#14. It isn't just training that makes a person good with magic." "True. Blind stupidity and a high pain tolerance helps. Still don't think I'm going to be all that useful.

Devon Monk

#15. The other day I chanced to meet
An angry man upon the street -
A man of wrath, a man of war,
A man who truculently bore
Over his shoulder, like a lance,
A banner labeled "Tolerance.

Phyllis McGinley

#16. But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone.

Glenn Reynolds

#17. The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal.

Games Workshop

#18. But Colin's only understanding of love was of limitless loyalty, boundless tolerance:

J.K. Rowling

#19. 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

#20. I used to have more tolerance for these views, but I am losing patience with what I see. The test of anything is the fruit it bears. I see no good fruit being born.

Charles M. Schulz

#21. Tolerance is bullshit. There is nothing to tolerate. We don't tolerate lovely people, we enjoy their company. I hate that term.

Kim Holden

#22. Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

Kim Campbell

#23. 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

#24. Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.

Neal Ascherson

#25. The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate with love, to prejudice with tolerance, to arrogance with humility, to humiliation with dignity, and to violence with reason.

Liu Xia

#26. By using the word 'tolerance,' you're simply placing yourself on a higher plane than those you tolerate. Tolerance is only possible when one fosters a deep-rooted sense of superiority.

Herman Koch

#27. You want to be burning calories after you work out. The problem becomes for most people - it's not pleasant, it's painful. You have to have the pain tolerance to be able to deal with that, which a lot of people do not.

Brett Hoebel

#28. There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be vain indeed to look for a similar one in the past of any other European country.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

#29. Thomas Henri Huxley often preached tolerance, but in practice he could not wait to go after religion and religious people in the most scornful of terms.
[Curb your enthusiasm,2016]

Michael Ruse

#30. I see Lord Buddha in the 21st Century across national borders, across faith systems, across political ideologies, playing the role of a bridge to promote understanding to counsel patience and to enlighten us with tolerance and empathy.

Narendra Modi

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

Dalai Lama XIV

#32. 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

#33. If we get used to putting up with minor hurts, we will gradually develop tolerance for greater pain.

Dalai Lama XIV

#34. Can we just be grateful for beauty & joy, fascination & tolerance, humour & love, nature & grace, and simply release any anger and pains?

Jay Woodman

#35. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.

Georges St-Pierre

#36. Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.

Eoin Colfer

#37. 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

#38. If we could look into each other's hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

Marvin J. Ashton

#39. We are a country based on democracy, tolerance, and openness to the world.

Angela Merkel

#40. conformity created maladjustment and tradition could turn psychopathic. Her last sentences urged acceptance of cultural relativism and tolerance of differences.

Lily King

#41. Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

David Eagleman

#42. Well, we've got a major effort under way to try to educate everybody, to let them know we have a zero tolerance policy where sexual assault is involved.

Dick Cheney

#43. This is the age of the new tolerance and it is producing a bumper crop of anti-Christian and anti-American sentiment.

Josh McDowell

#44. Which is more improbable - that the trillions of solar systems in the known universe exploded from something smaller than a pinhead or that there is an invisible, omniscient moral intelligence present everywhere that has the highest tolerance for cruelty?

David Hayden

#45. I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

Christopher Hitchens

#46. I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#47. One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.

Zig Ziglar

#48. 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.

Bernie Mac

#49. I believe that the capital of the Republic of Albania is a suitable venue for discussing the dialogue among religions and civilizations, notably in the countries of South East Europe, because we are well familiar with this country's track record of religious tolerance.

Georgi Parvanov

#50. If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it becomes intolerable.

Gaetano Mosca

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

Aristotle.

#52. America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional.

Mark McKinnon

#53. Tolerance is a relatively weak virtue; we're called to so much more than that in the body of Christ.

Kevin DeYoung

#54. [On highly politicized Islamists:] In the name of freedom they demand the right to renounce freedom. In the language of tolerance they demand that intolerance be granted a dignified place at the table.

Phyllis Chesler

#55. The tolerance of the public is diminishing. We're spending time on the wrong people. It's nutty. There has to be a better way. Why are we stripsearching Aunt Molly from Iowa and letting on Richard Reid?

Donald J. Carty

#56. Please show tolerance with people. you see if there were no idiots in the world , How would you know you were sane?

Dave Gale

#57. Don't try to be perfect. Life isn't; no one is. Use mistakes and mishaps as opportunities to grow tolerance and to teach. There is such a thing as happy accidents. And love, love, love and listen, listen, listen.

Teri Hatcher

#58. compliance, compliance begets tolerance, and tolerance brings peace." He flicks his ferret-like gaze across them all. "Disorder is unacceptable. The greater good depends upon all of you,

Joe Hart

#59. My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance.

Sherman Alexie

#60. I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.

Swami Vivekananda

#61. Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.

Timothy Keller

#62. Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

Phyllis McGinley

#63. The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

Samuel Beckett

#64. It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.

Danny Boyle

#65. Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element of moral systems; it is a very important source of spiritual discipline and a celestial virtue of perfected people.

Fethullah Gulen

#66. The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.

Dinesh D'Souza

#67. But no matter what the truth, remember: Dominicans are Caribbean and therefore have an extraordinary tolerance for extreme phenomena

Junot Diaz

#68. Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind

Dalai Lama

#69. Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage.

Jose Celso Barbosa

#70. No, Bailey, you're not a coward, but you're constantly worried that you are. You're a champion
worrier. And a woman, I think, who gives herself very little credit for her strengths, and has very little
tolerance for her weaknesses. Self-judgmental.

Nora Roberts

#71. I believe we don't need to widen the divide between the West and Islam. Rather, we need to build dialogue to encourage tolerance and respect.

Shirin Neshat

#72. One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice.

Hakim Bey

#73. Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.

Scott Hamilton

#74. Zero-tolerance on drinking and driving - meaning no drinking at all before driving - is a collective punishment that, in essence, only affects responsible adults who follow the law.

David Harsanyi

#75. The absence of dissent does not necessarily imply acceptance; just tolerance.

Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#76. serenity, the calm daughter of tolerance

Erich Maria Remarque

#77. There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.'

Allen West

#78. Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

Timothy Keller

#79. I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay people, and the lives of those gay people will be better.

Andrew Solomon

#80. The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Milan Kundera

#81. Now, I think that in acknowledging that every individual Member of Parliament and indeed every individual member of the Labour Party, has rights to express their view in a spirit of tolerance.

Ron Davies

#82. My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

Dalai Lama

#83. We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.

Agnes Repplier

#84. Here in USA we respect someone's rights, and as we profess tolerance, we shouldn't change - or have to change - our basic views on the sanctity of marriage. I believe in the sanctity of marriage. I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution, between a man and a woman.

George W. Bush

#85. Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.

Fausto Cercignani

#86. There are some people who have a low tolerance for criticism. I'm not one of those people.

Martin Shkreli

#87. People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

Stephen King

#88. Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

Ron Chernow

#89. Not simple intolerance but the tolerance of intolerance, which allows the intolerance to persist.

John Irving

#90. People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it.

Carl Olson

#91. The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.

Nancy Pearcey

#92. From the people who brought you "zero tolerance," I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged loner get a gun into this Gun-Free Zone?

Ann Coulter

#93. Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.

Amy Chua

#94. Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.

Slavoj Zizek

#95. I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance ... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.

Kris Jenner

#96. Tolerance is often championed by people who nothing to stand for.

Woodrow M. Kroll

#97. To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen.
-The Amtal Rule

Frank Herbert

#98. Rick Perry told reporters this week that he has a permit to carry a concealed handgun. He also has a concealed vocabulary, concealed knowledge of the issues, concealed tolerance ...

Jay Leno

#99. Depending on the strength of the relationship, level of communication and one's tolerance for discord, many people are able to get past normal skirmishes unscathed.

Carlos Wallace

#100. Sometimes prejudice can be slapped upside the head by tolerance.

Neal Shusterman