Tolerance Quotes - Page 15

• Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding first and last things.

  Sidney Hook

  Spiritual, Religious, Humility

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• The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are. We have not stopped insisting on defending an Islam of tolerance which would be profitable to every Muslim, in Afghanistan and in the whole world, and we will always defend it.

  Ahmad Shah Massoud

  Attitude, Islam, Would Be

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• Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

  Ayn Rand

  Opposites, Two, Condemnation

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.135, Penguin

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• Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.

  Neal Ascherson

  Taken, Roots, Political

  "Is Britishness a generous thing, or has it damaged England?". www.opendemocracy.net. January 17, 2012.

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• It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.

  Emma Goldman

  Believe, People, Atheism

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.

  Carl Joachim Friedrich

  Atheism, Minorities, Accepting

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• Proclaim a theology of divine righteousness which demands justice, respect, tolerance, compassion, inclusiveness, trust in the ultimate efficacy of divine zeal, and the rigorous pursuit of peace in the midst of competing interests and faith claims.

  James A. Forbes

  Compassion, Justice, Atheism

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• We are going through historic times, and my vision is a world, first of all, in which America continues to be that one indispensable nation. Because we're taking care of our own people, because our economy is strong and our middle class is growing, and people feel like hard work is rewarded, and we are continuing to expand opportunity and diversity and tolerance and respect.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Hard Work, Opportunity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The moral decisions of others should be treated with respect, as long as such decisions do not conflict with the principle of tolerance.

  Karl Popper

  Long, Decision, Atheism

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• I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word. How marvelous it would have been to go to a women's college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.

  Nora Ephron

  Christian, College, Boredom

  Nora Ephron (2012). “Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media”, p.45, Vintage

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• In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of keeping our sense of wonder. The strange worlds that exist in the pages of fantastic literature teach us a tolerance of other people and places and engender an openness toward new experience. Fantasy puts the world into perspective in a way that 'realistic' literature rarely does. It is not so much an escape from the here-and-now as an expansion of each reader's horizons.

  Jane Yolen

  Compassion, New Experiences, Differences

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• Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. When one views the slaughter and suffering caused by religious intolerance throughout all the history of man and into modern times, one can see that intolerance is a very nonsurvival activity. Religious tolerance does not mean one cannot express his own beliefs. It does mean that seeking to undermine or attack the religious faith and beliefs of another has always been a short road to trouble .

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Religious, Mean, Men

  L. Ron Hubbard “The Way To Happiness”, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases.

  Patrick Hayden

  America, Nuts, World

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• Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance.

  Vladimir Franz

  Election, Contests, Beauty Contest

  "Despite Face Tattoo Vladimir Franz Is Presidential Contender" by Dragon Jovanovic and Jilian Fama, abcnews.go.com. January 10, 2013.

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• One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice.

  Hakim Bey

  Expression, People, Justice

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• We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god. Indeed, those who discriminate against nonbelievers flout the principle of religious tolerance that they often profess.

  Norman Dorsen

  Religious, Profound, Atheism

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• I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

  Walt Disney

  America, Democracy, Thank God

  Radio address "Our American Culture" broadcast during an intermission of the Metropolitan Opera, March 1, 1941.

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• Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven't. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.

  Walt Disney

  Freedom, Believe, Men

  Walt Disney's radio address at the "Our American Culture" broadcast during an intermission of the Metropolitan Opera, March 1, 1941.

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• I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.

  Michael E. DeBakey

  Thinking, Laziness, Littles

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• Tolerance is a form of generosity and it is a form of wisdom. There is nothing anywhere in the Dharma [Buddhist scriptures] that should ever lead anyone to become intolerant. Our goal as Buddhists is to learn to accept all kinds of people and to help all kinds of people discover the wisdom of the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha

  Hsing Yun

  Buddhist, Teaching, Goal

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• Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.

  Criss Jami

  Hair, Tears, Tongue

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.67, Criss Jami

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• Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability: one is able to adjust, while the other, apparently, couldn't... The same analogy applies to fighting, and probably any other sport. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. We've seen this since the beginning of mixed martial arts.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Sports, Art, Strong

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• It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Strong, Thinking, Mma

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• Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
  A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students;
  Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good,
  Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism;
  And to some he teaches the profound,
  The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment,
  Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Compassion, Essence, Practice

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• Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Peace, Spring, Real

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.77, Lulu Press, Inc

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