Tolerance Quotes - Page 34

• Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.

  E. M. Forster

  Moving, Home, Giving

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Inferiority, Assumption

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gita: The Mother”, Lahore, India : Indian Printing Works

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• I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  May, Bent, Mines

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• Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Funny, Humorous, Hair

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Cities, Towns, Judgment

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.95

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• We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.

  Agnes Repplier

  Travel, Law, Tourists

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

  Robert Breault

  Acceptance, Chocolate, Sprinkles

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• Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Intellectual, Littles, Politician

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1925). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

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• If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are.

  Lord Chesterfield

  People, Way, Should

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.303

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• It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein others pardon no discordance. I think I have no more right to be angry with a man, whose reason has followed up a process different from what mine has, and is satisfied with the result, than with one who has gone to Venice while I am at Siena, and who writes to me that he likes the place.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Walter Savage Landor, John Forster, Charles George Crump (1891). “Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen. Dialogues of literary men”

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• Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.

  Hosea Ballou

  Years

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• Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.

  Edward Hoagland

  Cities, People, Resilience

  Edward Hoagland (1982). “The tugman's passage”, Random House Incorporated

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• Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy's-or excuse me, woman's-point of view.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Views, Guy, Racist

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• History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings who thought of themselves as civilized. What, we must ask, does our civilization possess that is worth defending? One thing worth defending, I suggest, is the imperative to imagine the lives of beings who are not ourselves and are not like ourselves: animals, plants, gods, spirits, people of other countries, other races, people of the other sex, places and enemies.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Sex, Animal

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• People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

  Don DeLillo

  People, Hardship, Particular

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who holds to the original traditions of our nation. . . . To change these traditions . . . would be harmful to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area. If we look at situations which have arisen in the past in Europe and other world areas, I think we will see the reason why it is wise to hold to our early traditions.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Wise, Religious, Attitude

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• ... every dog is allowed one bite.

  R. F. Delderfield

  Dog, Bites

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• I have a high tolerance for discomfort.

  Andrea Corr

  Discomfort

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• People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.

  Aloe Blacc

  People, Evil, Understanding

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• Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Growing Up, Believe

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• Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation of existing policies is easily transformed into forcible resistance of the authority which puts them in execution, and it would be folly to disregard the causal relation between the two. Yet to assimilate agitation, legitimate as such, with direct incitement to violent resistance, is to disregard the tolerance of all methods of political agitation which in normal times is a safeguard of free government.

  Learned Hand

  Passion, Men, Law

  Learned Hand (1968). “The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand”

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• The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.

  Epictetus

  Respect, Philosophy, Speech

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• Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded, then, is a return to these truths.

  Barack Obama

  Loyalty, Honesty, Hard Work

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence.

  Abe Fortas

  Acceptance, Expression, Law

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• For a new type of progress throughout the world to become a reality, everyone must change. Tolerance is the alpha and omega of a new world order.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Reality, Order, Progress

  "After the Summit; Gorbachev Urges Major Changes In the World's System of Alliances" by R. W. Apple Jr., www.nytimes.com. June 05, 1990.

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