Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion. — Alexander Chase Copy Share Image
Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our… — Barry O'Farrell Copy Share Image
While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I hear the word 'tolerance'-tha t some people are trying to teach people to be tolerant of gays. I'm not satisfied with… — Chely Wright Copy Share Image
But at the same time, the film industry just got torched. The risk tolerance for the types of movies we're talking about… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I should be able to express moral views on social issues. . . without being slandered, accused of hate speech, and told… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
It's just like calling homosexuals 'gays.' Gay means happy! You know, it's just to try to dilute it so that it becomes… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
Tolerance does not...do anything, embrace anyone, champion any issue. It wipes the notes off the score of life and replaces them with… — Walter Farrell Copy Share Image
If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“The conviction that the world, and therefore man too, is something which really ought not to exist is in fact calculated to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“When we look back, it becomes clear that the acts and accomplishments of human beings are the signatures of history. Human signatures… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
“Father Brendan Flynn: "A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew - I know none of… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
“For once I didn't look away immediately. I forced myself to meet her contemptuous gaze. I allowed myself be swept away by… — Malorie Blackman Copy Share Image
Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the Ten Commandments,… — Charlie Campbell Copy Share Image
Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
The lawyers' contribution to the civilizing of humanity is evidenced in the capacity of lawyers to argue furiously in the courtroom, then… — John Silber Copy Share Image