Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated — Brad Stevens Copy Share Image
Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
No one says to them self - when I grow up I want to be tolerated. Ethnicity is not a choice anyone… — Jordan Blake Michiels Copy Share Image
It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery. — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
“Free speech is a sign of a strong first-person plural, which enables people who disagree over fundamental things to live together in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western… — Marmaduke Pickthall Copy Share Image
You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing… — John Gummer Copy Share Image
“What the State can usefully do is to make itself a central depository, and active circulator and diffuser, of the experience resulting… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Surprisingly one of the forces for secularisation was Christianity itself. As soon as it accepted the idea of a contrary opinion, the… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open,… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug;… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The practice of “tolerance,” in the sense of allowing people to dissent, did not of course exist in any part of Christian… — Henry Kamen Copy Share Image
Actuated by these motives, and apprehensive of disturbing the repose of an unsettled reign, Julian surprised the world by an edict which… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“The modern mind is merely a blank about the philosophy of toleration; and the average agnostic of recent times has really had… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The grateful applause of the clergy has consecrated the memory of a prince, who indulged their passions and promoted their interest. Constantine… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image