1.
People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
Assata Shakur
2.
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
Karl Popper
3.
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
Marcus Aurelius
Exercise forbearance with others and adhere rigorously to your own standards.
4.
Let all listen, and be willing to listen to the doctrines professed by others.
Ashoka
Hearken to the beliefs espoused by others.
5.
Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When you have an immoral society that has blatantly, proudly, violated all of the commandments of God, there is one last virtue they insist upon: tolerance for their immorality.
D. James Kennedy
6.
Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.
Ravi Zacharias
'Authentic acceptance must not be compromised in the name of false leniency. Genuine forbearance involves respect for all views, not indifference to reality.'
7.
Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
Bill W.
'Integrity in our relationships & with ourselves is a crucial factor in achieving sobriety, but it is forbearance that maintains it.'
8.
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Open-mindedness
9.
We`re all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers gave us in the way of hatred between nations.
Joe Strummer
"We must all strive to cultivate a more open-minded outlook and discard the animosity inherited from our ancestors."
10.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy
Acceptance implies no insufficiency of adherence to one's own ideals. Rather it denounces the subjugation or ill-treatment of others.
11.
Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles.
Abdu'l-Bahá
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Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of Christianity. Why is it that those who have no biblical convictions or theology to govern and direct their actions are tolerated and the standard or truth of God's Word rightly divided and applied is dismissed as extreme opinion or legalism?
John Stott
13.
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 persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.
Fulton J. Sheen
14.
Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
Aga Khan IV
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Tolerance is just a fancy word for ignoring a fascist ideology. Acceptance is the only way.
Jessica Jung
16.
Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
Fulton J. Sheen
18.
Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, rather than emancipation, political struggle, or even armed struggle?
Slavoj Žižek
19.
If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.
Glennon Melton
20.
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
Toni Morrison
21.
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
Christopher Hitchens
22.
If
we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance
instead
of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of
evil.
Dennis Prager
23.
All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does no good to put a halo on the notion of tolerance as if everything could be equally true. To deem all beliefs equally true is sheer nonsense for the simple reason that to deny that statement would also, then, be true. But if the denial of the statement is also true, then all religions are not true.
Ravi Zacharias
24.
I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
Pat Robertson
25.
Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Thomas Mann
26.
An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.
Nick Cave
27.
Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.
Rene Dubos
28.
Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.
Charles Colson
29.
God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?
Martin Buber
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No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
Giacomo Leopardi
31.
Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different.
Kate Bornstein
32.
There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
Thomas Jefferson
36.
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
Toni Morrison
37.
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
Pierre Bayle
38.
A century of partial tolerance gave us Jews access to your world. In that period the great attempt was made, by advance guards of reconciliation, to bring our two worlds together. It was a century of failure. We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers forever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will forever destroy because we need a world of our own, a God-world, which it is not in your nature to build
Maurice Samuel
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I have little tolerance for incompetence, sloppy thinking, and laziness.
Michael E. DeBakey
40.
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
E. B. White
41.
This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.
Susan Jacoby
42.
Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.
Dilys Laing
43.
It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words.
Chris Rose
44.
Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.
Gordon B. Hinckley
45.
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
Jacques Barzun
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If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard.
Arthur Japin
47.
Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
Yahya Jammeh
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Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.
Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
49.
Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
Sidney Hook
50.
I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.
Anne M. Mulcahy