Tolerance Quotes

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We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to… — Nelson Mandela
The best creed we can have is charity toward the creeds of others. — Josh Billings
Let every man come to God in his own way. — Henry Ward Beecher
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… — E. M. Forster
There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance... Tolerance applies only to… — Fulton J. Sheen
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… — Mahatma Gandhi
I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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… — Eric Hoffer
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… — Agnes Repplier
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
Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics. — Woodrow Wilson
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… — Lord Chesterfield
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… — Walter Savage Landor
Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others. — Hosea Ballou
Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop. — Edward Hoagland
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… — Barbara Ehrenreich
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… — Wendell Berry
People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it. — Don DeLillo
It is within the family that children learn the values that will guide them for the rest of their lives. It is within the family… — Kofi Annan
No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate in which limits… — Paulo Freire

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