What Is Tolerance Quotes

#1. What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.

Voltaire

#2. What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Voltaire

#3. It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.

Emma Goldman

#4. To this husband of hers she made the last concession of married life, which is more complete, more irrevocable, than the first - she listened to him. She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance - actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage. She

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. In Islam tolerance means that Christians and Jews are allowed to live under the protection of Muslims but never as citizens with the same rights. What Muslims call tolerance is nothing other than discrimination.

Bassam Tibi

#6. Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill. But what happens when the lights go out?

Kathleen Parker

#7. Oh, come on. A vamp marrying a human gets the fanged ones all upset, and Eve made herself look like the ultimate fang-anger to all the humans by putting a ring on one, so what did you expect exactly? Flowers and parades? This is Texas. We're still figuring out how to spell tolerance.

Rachel Caine

#8. 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

#9. What she really wants is a place with more tolerance for differences, less emphasis on materialism, where people value creativity and are interested in working on issues relating to peace and justice.

Peter Singer

#10. The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant towards your over-proximity.

Slavoj Zizek

#11. The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' 'What if those who do not do as you do are gunning you down?' I said.... Alaska frowned. 'Guns are intolerant. Guns are a failure of communication.

Jeanette Winterson

#12. Of what use is it to be tolerant of others if you are convinced that you are right and everyone who disagrees with you is wrong? That isn't tolerance but condescension.

Anthony De Mello

#13. The rhetoric of this masked master is one of the tolerance of difference. What better way to keep people in tow, hold them in the same old line of the same, than to console them with the noble lie of difference

Anonymous

#14. We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.

Arlen Specter

#15. One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

Drew Houston

#16. A good Dom knows what their sub's pain tolerance is, their likes and dislikes, and won't go beyond what their sub can handle.

B.S.M. Stoneking

#17. I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.

Michel De Montaigne

#18. Honestly, I just have to do what's right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.

Martina Mcbride

#19. Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness. To know all is to forgive all.

Dale Carnegie

#20. True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It's knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn't.

Charles Colson

#21. What good is "Loving thy neighbor as thyself" if you don't Love thyself?

Donald L. Hicks

#22. But I could never see what was so awful and wrong about being honest. And I didn't think it had anything to do with being an only child. I believed it had more to do with the fact that I had an inherently low bullshit tolerance, and what the hell is wrong with that?

Josie Bloss

#23. It's not about the extent to which something happened or did not happen; it's whether we choose to confront evil and call it what it is, or simply let it pass because it 'wasn't enough of a big deal'.

Joyce Rachelle

#24. As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. And we become wise, with no sense of having to straighten anyone out.

Steve Hagen

#25. Market risk is like taking a plunge into a cool pool ... a lot of people are finding out right now what their risk tolerance is.

William J. Bernstein

#26. Queens is famous throughout the world for diversity and tolerance. But really it's what we have in common that makes our neighborhoods work, our students succeed, and our families able to care for children and grandparents as they can.

Grace Meng

#27. Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency and tolerance are lost.

Richard M. Weaver

#28. I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Mel Gibson

#29. What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance
in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.

H.L. Mencken

#30. Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Fulton J. Sheen

#31. The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.

T. S. Monk

#32. Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

Sidney Hook

#33. What a most unreasonably stubborn man," he said. "One must be more open to opposing views in this world."
"You don't say."
"Oh, indeed! As our late father often said, 'Toleration is good for all or it is good for non.

Daniel Stashower

#34. Tolerance is that important but subordinate virtue by which, instructed in our own weakness, we bear with what is bad without pretending that it is good. We bear with it provisionally, even if sometimes there is nothing we can do about it or ever will be able to do about it. It

Anthony Esolen

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

Oscar Goodman

#36. 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

#37. As I've been telling your, son, you get nowhere looking at clothes and the color of the skin to judge a man. It won't tell you nothing about what's inside. That's where a fellow's mettle is, and that's what counts.

Richard Puz

#38. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

E. M. Forster

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. ... when we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief.

Idries Shah

#43. What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

Ridley Scott

#44. Someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything, so do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two.

Brandon Boyd

#45. What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional.

Maria Popova

#46. Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.

Tony Blair

#47. Word: I'm not saying the races don't have a common human bond. I'm just saying that bond isn't about compassion and equality and tolerance. What we all share together is the drive to get what's ours and keep it for as long as we can.

Snoop Dogg

#48. The best defense for any group of people is what we do to defend other people.

Russell Simmons