Tolerance Quotes - Page 27

• Tolerance is a sign of growth on the spiritual path

  Sivananda

  Spiritual, Growth, Path

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• No one ever questions the disorder behind her tarantula LA glamour – sociopathy, narcissism – because it’s good rock and roll, good entertainment! I have a low tolerance for manipulative, egomaniacal behaviour, and usually have to remind myself that the person might be mentally ill.

  Kim Gordon

  Rock And Roll, Rocks, Might

  "Kim Gordon Details Thurston Moore Split, Trashes Courtney Love, Billy Corgan in Memoir" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. February 3, 2015.

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• You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, Of people whose skin is a different shade. You've got to be carefully taught.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Eye, People, Skins

  "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" (song) (1949)

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• Needless fear and panic over disease and misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage.

  Elie Metchnikoff

  Fear, Real, Illumination

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• In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Different, Moral, Oppression

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• Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Humility, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Wise, Wisdom, Pride

  Eric Hoffer (1979). “Before the Sabbath”, Harpercollins

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• Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Mean, Sacrifice

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

  John Milton

  Truth, Religion, Society

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• Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony

  John Perry Barlow

  Thinking, Determined, Irony

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• There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be vain indeed to look for a similar one in the past of any other European country.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Country, Powerful, Past

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• More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Ivory, Bird, World

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• The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Permit, Theory

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.4, Harvard University Press

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• The election is over, and even though there are people who have different ideologies and beliefs, from now on we must all embrace each other, creating a harmonious and unified new Taiwan through our love and tolerance.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Creating, People, Different

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• So how do we solve this ancient problem? How can we not just tolerate someone who believes differently than we do, but actually respect them for those beliefs? Because nothing less than that will do. It can’t. Simply tolerating someone who believes differently than we do isn’t enough. “Accepting” them isn’t enough. Having true and abiding peace with them means loving them. And that means respecting them. Because love without respect isn’t real love at all. It’s at best condescending patronization.

  John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth

  Real, Believe, Mean

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• The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Self, Scotch

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• I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices. And 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. That men of all creeds have fundamental common objectives is a fact one must learn by the process of education. How to work jointly toward these objectives must be learned by experience.

  Frank Knox

  Education, Art, Believe

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• I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

  Frank Knox

  Forgiveness, Believe, Heart

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

  Michael E. DeBakey

  Thinking, Laziness, Littles

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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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• We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we will always defend it.

  Ahmad Shah Massoud

  Islam, World, Whole

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• Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.

  Krista Tippett

  Ascent, Virtue, Cerebral

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• Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Spiritual, Religious, Expression

  Lawrence Kushner (2010). “I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego”, p.36, Jewish Lights Publishing

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• Tolerance for intolerance is not tolerance at all.

  Bruce Bawer

  Intolerance

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• Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Way, Achieve

  Dalai Lama @DalaiLama, twitter.com. March 7, 2013.

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