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• What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.

  J. K. Rowling

  Loyalty, Important

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• I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

  Coretta Scott King

  Believe, Responsibility, Rights

  "Shadow in the Land : Homosexuality in America" by William Dannemeyer, (p. 148), 1989.

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• I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

  Stephen Fry

  Lovers, Language, Purity

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• Tolerance can lead to learning something.

  Jakob Dylan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Motivation

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• Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

  Rene Dubos

  Differences, Diversity, Humanity

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• 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

  Wisdom, Block, Struggle

  "China's endless literary inquisition" by Liu Xiaobo, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2010.

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• Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

  Arthur Keith

  Civilization, Mind, Conditions

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Tolerance is another word for indifference.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Diversity, Social Justice, Indifference

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• Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

  Agnes Repplier

  Funny, Patience, Humor

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• Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Men, Inspire

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• 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

  Equality, Keys, Creating

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• As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Saint, Sin, Rough

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.300

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• Do more of what you love, less of what you tolerate and none of what you hate.

  John Assaraf

  Love, Inspirational, Hate

  FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Mar 07, 2017

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• The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Responsibility, Vision

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1282, Wordsworth Editions

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• We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

  Karl Popper

  Names, Claims, Should

  Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and its Enemies”, p.668, Routledge

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• Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Acceptance, Assuming, Form

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• Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Remember, Distress

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• I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

  Bruce Davison

  Thinking, Political, Climate

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• Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Matter, Ethics, Belief

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.159, tredition

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

  Carl E. Olson

  Thinking, People, Way

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• Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.

  Jay Inslee

  House, Constitution, Should

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• I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Zero, Hype, Want

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• I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

  Frank Knox

  Progress, Quality, Today

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• And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

  Martin Scorsese

  Forgiveness, Kindness, Compassion

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