Tolerance Quotes - Page 2

• Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Xenophobia, Fear, Racism

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.70, Routledge

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• It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

  Pierre Bayle

  Diversity, Brotherhood, Source

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• We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance.

  Rush Limbaugh

  World, Intolerance

  "Where’s the Outrage? ABC Premieres Show Called 'GCB' (Good Christian Bitches)". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 7, 2012.

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• Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Our World, Hell, Turns

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• I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Support, Intolerance

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• We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace and development than a world divided along religious, ethnic or cultural lines. In each nation, and among all nations, we must work to promote unity based on our shared humanity.

  Kofi Annan

  Religious, Effort, Understanding

  "Press Briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva Spokesman for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and by UN agencies". www.un.org. September 16, 2004.

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• Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Strict

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.166, Modern Library

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

  Zig Ziglar

  Acceptance, Virtue, Disaster

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  Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Business, Democracy, Depth

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• The problem is that tolerant has changed its meaning. It used to mean 'I may disagree with you completely, but I will treat you with respect. Today, tolerant means - 'you must approve of everything I do.' There's a difference between tolerance and approval. Jesus accepted everyone no matter who they were. He doesn't approve of everything I do, or you do, or anybody else does either. You can be accepting without being approving.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Mean, Gay

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• Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Attitude, War

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return

  Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

  Happiness, Respect, Kindness

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• Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power.

  John Money

  Reason, Social, Expediency

  "Homosexuality: Bipotenitality, Terminology, and History" by John Money,

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• An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.

  John Rawls

  Liberty, Principles, Complaining

  "A Theory of Justice". Book by John Rawls, 1971.

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• No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Everyday, Humans, Traits

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• I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

  Lady Gaga

  Forgiveness, Acceptance, Love Is

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• As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Freedom, Law

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.306, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Respect, Rights, Giving

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll", Vol VII, 2009.

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• But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

  Bill McKibben

  Laziness, Moral

  Bill McKibben (1989). “The end of nature”, Random House Inc

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• Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Betrayal, Betrayed, Want

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Mean, People

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Men

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

  Heinrich Heine

  Evil, Religion, Path

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• There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance... Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Confused, Average, Mind

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• Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

  Pervez Musharraf

  Hatred, Brotherhood, Islam

  "In Musharraf's Words: 'A Day of Reckoning'". www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2002.

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