Tolerance Quotes - Page 12

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

  T. S. Monk

  Teamwork, Philosophy, America

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• In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Egalitarianism, Differences

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.181, Counterpoint

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• When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. He's like Bill Clinton in that he feels everyone's pain. If Rick thinks somebody is lonely, he can't sleep at night. He wants us all to live with each other and play nice so he can get some rest. Tortured soul.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Lonely, Pain

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.105, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Challenges, Enemy

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• All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.

  John Shelby Spong

  Respect, Race, Ethnicity

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• 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

  Zero, Military, Effort

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• Like the vast majority of Americans, I've opposed same-sex marriage, but I've also opposed unjust discrimination against anyone, for racial or religious reasons, or for sexual preference. Americans are a tolerant, generous, and kind people. We all oppose bigotry and disparagement. But the debate over same-sex marriage is not a debate over tolerance. It is a debate about the purpose of the institution of marriage and it is a debate about activist judges who make up the law rather than interpret the law.

  Mitt Romney

  Religious, Sex, Gay

  "A Primary Factor". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 14, 2006.

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• There's not a lot of tolerance for people like me... To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.

  Jon Cryer

  Bullying, Ignorance, Hair

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• The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

  Ron Carlson

  Heart, Stories, Honest

  Ron Carlson (2007). “Ron Carlson Writes a Story”, Graywolf Press

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• Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic or nationalist guises, do not want people to develop more tolerance, nonviolence and compassion. And ruling groups in general, in whatever sort of hierarchy do not want the ruled to become too insightful, too independent, too creative on their own, as the danger is that they will become insubordinate, rebellious, and unproductive in their alloted tasks.

  Robert Thurman

  Military, Creativity, Independent

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• 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.

  Dale Carnegie

  Kindness, People, Criticism

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.23, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection.

  Benjamin Barber

  Life, Imagination, Affection

  Benjamin R. Barber (2000). “A Passion for Democracy: American Essays”, p.221, Princeton University Press

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• Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

  Robert Thurman

  Cognitive Dissonance, Dissonance, Cognitive

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Tolerance does not...do anything, embrace anyone, champion any issue. It wipes the notes off the score of life and replaces them with one long bar of rest. It does not attack error, it does not champion truth, it does not hate evil, it does not love good.

  Walter Farrell

  Hate, Errors, Issues

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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