Toleration Quotes

57 Toleration quotes by 54 unique authors

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
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
Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty. — Alan Barth
The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
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
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
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
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
No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration. — Martin Van Buren
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
Travel teaches toleration. — Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art. — Wallace Stevens
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic. — Frank Lloyd Wright
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
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
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
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
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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