Toleration Quotes
57 Toleration quotes by 54 unique authors
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I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not…
— Edmund Burke
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The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal…
— Elizabeth Blackwell
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Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.
— Alan Barth
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The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of those adhering to…
— Michael Newdow
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What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government…
— Richard Mentor Johnson
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In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration…
— Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures…
— Thomas Merton
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Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding…
— James Madison
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Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
— Martin Van Buren
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
— Khalil Gibran
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Travel teaches toleration.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
— Helen Keller
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We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least…
— Lester B. Pearson
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
— Wallace Stevens
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by…
— Edward Gibbon
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The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed…
— George Washington
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Friendship is a Spackle in itself. You'll forgive your friends a lot, and if you're a woman, you'll forgive your straight male friends even more.…
— Sloane Crosley
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Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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