Tolerance Quotes - Page 32

• Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Kindness, Compassion, Essence

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• We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.

  Dalai Lama

  Hatred, Overcoming, Needs

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.171, Penguin

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• We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America -- none, whatsoever.

  Ronald Reagan

  Hater, Religious, America

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• We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer others’ generosity to meanness. And who is there among us who does not prefer tolerance, respect and forgiveness of our failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment?

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Generosity, Hatred

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• I hear the word 'tolerance'-tha t some people are trying to teach people to be tolerant of gays. I'm not satisfied with that word. I am gay, and I am not seeking to be 'tolerated'. One tolerates a toothache, rush-hour traffic, an annoying neighbor with a cluttered yard. I am not a negative to be tolerated.

  Chely Wright

  Gay, People, Trying

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• September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.

  Tony Blair

  New York, America, Challenges

  "Attacks Remembered: In quotes". news.bbc.co.uk. September 11, 2002.

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• Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that “everybody is white” or “everybody is black” or “everybody is neither white nor black, but gray,” is not a moral judgment, but an escape from the responsibility of moral judgment.

  Ayn Rand

  Responsibility, Opposites, Two

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.319, Penguin

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• Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Proof, Distrust, Ideals

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• 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, Doe

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

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• I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Acceptance, World

  Opening Welcome Address at the World Parliament of Religions, delivered 11 September 1893

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• Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one last virtue, tolerance for its immorality. It will not tolerate condemnation of its perversions. It creates a whole new world in which only the intolerant critic of intolerable evil is evil.

  Hutton Gibson

  Evil, World, Lasts

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• Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

  Octavia Butler

  Intelligent, Thinking, Forever

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• True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It's knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn't.

  Charles Colson

  Knowing, Judgment, Should

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• The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Different, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I was high on life but eventually I built up a tolerance.

  Arj Barker

  Built

  Doug Benson, Tony Camin, Arj Barker (2005). “The Marijuana-logues: Everything About Pot That We Could Remember”, p.23, Crown Archetype

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• When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.

  Sean Penn

  Mistake, Cameras, Nikon

  "Sean Penn and Eddie Vedder Go Into the Wild". Interview with B. Alan Oranfe, movieweb.com. September 20, 2007.

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• And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.

  Brent Spiner

  Stars, Believe, Thrust

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• Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.

  Stephen Prothero

  Virtue, Empty, Supposed To Be

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• I ask you to uphold the values of America and remember why so many have come here. We're in a fight for our principles, and our first responsibility is to live by them. No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith.

  George W. Bush

  Religious, Responsibility, Fighting

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• It is very important to understand that pluralism is part of our system. We don't all think the same thing and part of our strength is that we come from different perspectives. We have to respect one another even when we disagree with each other. There has to be a spirit of tolerance for the views of others, while also being deeply committed to the positions we hold. If we do that, I think we can coexist and learn to love each other better.

  James Dobson

  Religious, Thinking, Views

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• Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Religious, Reality, Recognition

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1897). “Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction”

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• The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions. We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn't stop now. To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic republic.

  Barry Goldwater

  Religious, Government, Years

  "Excerpts From Goldwater Remarks". Remarks in the Congressional Record, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1981.

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• Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For such people tolerance is an act of self-abnegation; although they are convinced that those who differ from them must be wrong, they nevertheless will protect their rights.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Religious, Rights, Self

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• If being tolerant of differing opinions, if believing that America has to make it as a pluralistic nation, if being civil, if that makes you a liberal, I plead guilty.

  Bill Moyers

  Religious, Believe, America

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• The lawyers' contribution to the civilizing of humanity is evidenced in the capacity of lawyers to argue furiously in the courtroom, then sit down as friends over a drink or dinner. This habit is often interpreted by the layman as a mark of their ultimate corruption. In my opinion, it is their greatest moral achievement: It is a characteristic of humane tolerance that is most desperately needed at the present time.

  John Silber

  Law, Achievement, Humanity

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