Tolerance Quotes

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You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, Of people whose skin is a different shade. You've got… — Oscar Hammerstein II
Religion should be a source for reconciliation, for tolerance and for empathy. — Charles Kimball
The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined… — Derek R. Audette
Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value… — W. Somerset Maugham
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do… — Benjamin Disraeli
In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find… — Robert A. Heinlein
Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a… — Eric Hoffer
Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together… — Eric Hoffer
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution. — John Milton
Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you… — Heinrich Heine
Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony — John Perry Barlow
There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski
More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler. — Roger Tory Peterson
The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only… — John Rawls
The election is over, and even though there are people who have different ideologies and beliefs, from now on we must all embrace each other,… — Chen Shui-bian
So how do we solve this ancient problem? How can we not just tolerate someone who believes differently than we do, but actually respect them… — John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth
The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery.… — Robert Genn
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Some one… — Frank Knox
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. — Frank Knox
I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the… — Frank Knox

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