Tolerance Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• If your definition of homosexuality is being able to do whatever you want to, and that you should be able to go and engage in sex with another person, and that because of that, the disease you have is going to spread to that person and they're going to take it home and give it to their wife, how much tolerance should we have for that? We should have zero tolerance for that.

  Scott Lively

  Zero, Sex, Home

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. December 9, 2009.

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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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• The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. No matter whether you are learned or not, whether you believe in the next life or not, whether you believe in God or Buddha or some other religion or not, in day-to-day life you must be a kind person.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Kindness, Believe

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• It is hard to be an apprentice to an unfriendly professor, or even one whose warmth or tolerance wears thin when the going gets hard for the student and help is needed.

  Robert Audi

  Teaching, Helping, Students

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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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• Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both French and British strains. For Canada is enriched by the heritage of France as well as of Britain, and Quebec has imparted the vitality and spirit of France itself to Canada. Canada's notable achievement of national unity and progress through accommodation, moderation and forbearance can be studied with profit by her sister nations.

  Harry S. Truman

  Character, People, Achievement

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1963). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand for religious tolerance both in act and in spirit.

  Herbert Hoover

  Religious, Blood, Presidential

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.36, Stanford University Press

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• There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives, elevating our ideals, deepening our tolerance, and sharpening our appetite for knowledge about the rest of the world. Educational and cultural exchanges...provide a perfect opportunity for this precious spark to grow, making us more sensitive and wiser international citizens through our careers.

  Ronald Reagan

  Educational, Opportunity, Careers

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• Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.

  Herbert Hoover

  Suicide, Spiritual, Lying

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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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• Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Justice, Pro Life

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.143, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• The tolerance of the public is diminishing. We're spending time on the wrong people. It's nutty. There has to be a better way. Why are we stripsearching Aunt Molly from Iowa and letting on Richard Reid?

  Donald J. Carty

  Aunt, Iowa, People

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• We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.

  Dalai Lama

  Friendship, Sympathy, Wisdom

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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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• I've always believed that everything that is said from authority is either the authority of one's own heart, one's own brain, one's own reading, one's own trust, but not the authority of someone who claims it because they're speaking for God and they know the truth because it's written in a book. That, essentially, is where I come from. In a sense, tolerance is my religion. Reason is my religion.

  Stephen Fry

  Book, Reading, Heart

  "I saw hate in a graveyard - Stephen Fry". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2005.

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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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• Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

  Robert Thurman

  Cognitive Dissonance, Dissonance, Cognitive

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• Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.

  Paulo Coelho

  Compassion, People, Fearless

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 06, 2014

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• 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

  Real, Civilization, Joy

  "Welsh star in race row". WalesOnline Interview, www.walesonline.co.uk. January 18, 2004.

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