Toleration Quotes

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I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you… — Thomas Jefferson
It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies… — Joyce Cary
Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration. — Walter Lippmann
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. — Edmund Burke
Toleration is the best religion. — Victor Hugo
A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing people to do… — John Gummer
We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has… — I. A. R. Wylie
In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western nations broke away… — Marmaduke Pickthall
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind. — Helen Keller
The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of others, precisely because… — Pope John Paul II
In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and… — Samuel Adams
The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which, by precept and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of… — Kingsley Amis
The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at… — Leonard Ravenhill
I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as… — James Branch Cabell
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
The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in meat production that… — Brian Reynolds Myers
We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show,… — Adam Weishaupt
We don't welcome the naked and hungry so they can be naked and hungry in our company. We clothe and feed. Hospitality is not toleration… — Peter Leithart
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong… — Margaret Mead

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