Tolerance Quotes - Page 19

• Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Religious, Infidelity, Atheism

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2697, Delphi Classics

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• I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

  Steve Earle

  Pain, Joy, Music And Life

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• We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

  George D. Prentice

  Favors, Impossible, Difficult

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• Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.

  Francois Rabelais

  Mind, Worship, Sabbath Day

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• How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.

  Emma Goldman

  Life And Death, Understanding, Atheism

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

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• We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Unique, Individual, Achieve

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• Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Attitude, Mean, Recognition

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• One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Home, Herbs, Bundles

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• Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Teaching, India

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• The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Degrees, Maintaining, Cohesion

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “Saint Joan”, p.37, Read Books Ltd

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• It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Merit, Crime, Tolerate

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• There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a familiarity with the vices he condemns the most vehemently--without his completely recognizing this vice which, disguised as certain events, touches him and wounds him: strange words, an inexplicable attitude, on a given night, of the person whom he otherwise has so many reasons to love.

  Marcel Proust

  Attitude, Night, Vices

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• Never to despise in myself what I have been taught
  to despise. Nor to despise the other.
  Not to despise the it. To make this relation
  with the it: to know that I am it.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Taught, Despise, Relation

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.138, Northwestern University Press

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• Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Knowing, Rejection, Suffering

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• There is also a reasonable tolerance: reason tolerates the reasonable. It is, however, almost tautological to call this 'tolerance' any longer, as it becomes a matter of course.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Matter, Reason, Tolerate

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• Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.

  Westbrook Pegler

  Brother, Hate, League

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• The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.

  Warren E. Burger

  Christian, Religious, Church

  Warren E. Burger (1984). “Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States”

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• Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the entire society. The message they currently communicate is harsh and unambiguous: religion is offensive and should be kept out of public view.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, School

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• The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Establishment Clause

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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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