Tolerance Quotes - Page 13

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

  Timothy Keller

  People, Belief, Absence

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• If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.

  George Marsden

  Culture, Virtue, Ifs

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• In times of change and uncertainty, we need the spirit of jazz more than ever before, to bring people - especially young women and men - together, to nurture freedom and dialogue, to create new bridges of respect and understanding, for greater tolerance and cooperation.

  Irina Bokova

  Men, Bridges, People

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• Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.

  N. Katherine Hayles

  Long, Boredom, Focus

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• There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women to a vision of human claims in those races of their fellow-men who most differ from them in customs and beliefs.

  George Eliot

  Men, Race, Imagination

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6957, Delphi Classics

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

  George Eliot

  Lasts, Intolerance, Refuge

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.471, Cambridge University Press

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• I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Blow, Two Sides

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4591, Delphi Classics

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• Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

  Luce Irigaray

  Respect, Desire, Doe

  Luce Irigaray (2008). “Sharing the world”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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

  Richard Baxter

  Men, Different, Worship

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• Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

  Freya Stark

  Evil, May, Fallacy

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.137, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• 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

  Love Is, Parent, Different

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of our work as much as they detest most of our politics. Instead of rationally debating subjects like abortion or gay rights, they condemn as immoral those who favor choice and tolerance. They disown their own dark side and magnify everyone else's until, at the extreme, doctors are murdered in the name of protecting life. I wonder, who is this God they invoke, who is so petty and mean? Is God really against gun control and food stamps for poor children?

  Barbra Streisand

  Children, Mean, Dark

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

  Phyllis McGinley

  Men, Champion, Liberty

  Phyllis McGinley, “The Angry Man”

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• It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Years, People, Good Man

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Where There's a Will”, p.242, The Floating Press

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• No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Exercise, Excuse You, Emergencies

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.69, Northwestern University Press

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• Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Believe, Acceptance, Thinking

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.52, Northwestern University Press

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• They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.

  Augustus William Hare

  Pride, Giving, Endurance

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.475

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• There is no intolerance in the world so great as the intolerance of tolerance, and no bigotry so excessive as the bigotry of the image breaker. To praise the devil is second nature. To praise God is an education.

  Elisabeth Marbury

  Devil, World, Praise

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• Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.

  Margaret Halsey

  Way, Assuming, Turns

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Determination, Anger

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon one another with respect and tolerance instead of prejudice, distrust and hatred. We will have to teach our children-as well as ourselves-to love the diversity of humanity....We can do it. Yes, you and I and all of us together. Now is the time. Now is the only possible time. Let the Great Healing begin.

  Leonard Peltier

  Respect, Time, Children

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• What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is that atrocities against women and children are carried out in Europe. What matters is that governments and societies must stop hiding behind a hollow pretense of tolerance so that they can recognize and deal with the problem.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Children, Europe, What Matters

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  People, Islam, Secular

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• We are cast as combatants in the war between truth and error. There is no middle ground. We must stand up for truth, even while we practice tolerance and respect for beliefs and ideas different from our own and for the people who hold them.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  War, Errors, Practice

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• Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Vices, Virtue, Exaggerated

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