Toleration Quotes

• The highest result of education is tolerance.

  Helen Keller

  Forgiveness, Education, Teacher

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Compassion

  "Words Of Wisdom: Selected Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama" edited by Margaret Gee, (p. 71), 2001.

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• I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

  Lady Gaga

  Forgiveness, Acceptance, Love Is

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• The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Responsibility, Tolerance

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1282, Wordsworth Editions

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• Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.

  Frederick Buechner

  Indifference, Disguise

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cycling

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.372, The Floating Press

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• A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.

  Savitri Devi

  Life, Pain, War

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• You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Running, Hurt

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• Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

  Sidney Hook

  Tolerance, Hook, Limits

  Sidney Hook (1975). “Pragmatism and the tragic sense of life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, People, Excuse

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Differences, Tolerance, Making A Difference

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• We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated

  Brad Stevens

  Trust, Basketball, Nba

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• I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Freedom, Mistress, Being Free

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• Toleration is the best religion.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Diversity, Tolerance

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• Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.

  R. C. Sproul

  Real, Long, Identity

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• Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Tolerance, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits.... Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king of the gipsies can assume, dressed as printers, publishers, writers and schoolmasters? If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in Hell, it is this society of Loyola's. Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.

  John Adams

  Religious, Kings, Men

  "The Manner Is Ordinary" by Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2015.

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• Persecution always says, 'I know the consequences of your opinion better than you know them yourselves.' But the language of toleration was always amicable, liberal, and just: it confessed its doubts, and acknowledged its ignorance ... Persecution had always reasoned from cause to effect, from opinion to action, [that such an opinion would invariably lead to but one action], which proved generally erroneous; while toleration led us invariably to form just conclusions, by judging from actions and not from opinions.

  Charles James Fox

  Ignorance, Judging, Doubt

  "Charles James Fox: A Man for the People" by Loren Reid, (p. 261), 1969.

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• A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

  Billy Graham

  Humor, Adversity, Overcoming

  Billy Graham (1993). “Hope for the Troubled Heart: Finding God in the Midst of Pain”, Bantam

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• Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable.

  Aurora Levins Morales

  Integrity, Heart, Self

  Aurora Levins Morales (1998). “Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity”, p.125, South End Press

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• Religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and, therefore, that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience, unpunished and unrestrained by the magistrate, unless under color of religion any man disturb the peace, the happiness, or safety of society, and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity toward each other.

  James Madison

  Christian, Exercise, Men

  James Madison (1900). “The Writings of James Madison: 1769-1783”

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• In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.

  Philip Schaff

  Country, Exercise, Atheism

  Philip Schaff (1888). “Church and State in the United States ; Or, The American Idea of Religious Liberty and Its Practical Effects: With Official Documents”

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• In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.

  Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma

  Animal, Needs, Generations

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• People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of those adhering to dissenting beliefs in small, insidious steps. They begin by saying, 'We're the righteous, and we'll tolerate those others.' And as the toleration diminishes over time, the inevitable harms are overlooked. It is for that reason that James Madison wisely wrote that 'it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties'.

  Michael Newdow

  People, One Day, Liberty

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• A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity.

  Granville Sharp

  Slavery, Inhumanity, Effects

  Granville Sharp (2014). “A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

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