Quotes and Sayings About Tolerance
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The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another’s customs and opinions; respect for one another’s rights and feelings; awareness of one another’s needs.
-- A.J. Ayer -
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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 IVSource : Speech at the Ceremony to Inaugurate the Restored Humayun's Tomb Gardens, New Delhi, India, April 15, 2003.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
-- Agnes Repplier -
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We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we will always defend it.
-- Ahmad Shah Massoud -
The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are. We have not stopped insisting on defending an Islam of tolerance which would be profitable to every Muslim, in Afghanistan and in the whole world, and we will always defend it.
-- Ahmad Shah Massoud -
Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
-- Alain de Botton -
I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.
-- Alberto Gonzales -
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Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.
-- Allan Bloom -
I think we have to understand that when tolerance becomes a one-way street, it will lead to cultural suicide. We should not allow the Muslim Brotherhood or associated groups to be influencing our national security strategy.
-- Allen West -
There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.'
-- Allen West -
People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.
-- Aloe Blacc -
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Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.
-- Amy Chua -
I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.
-- Amy Chua -
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
-- Anais Nin -
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The people at the Café Lehmitz had a presence and a sincerity that I myself lacked. It was okay to be desperate, to be tender, to sit all alone or share the company of others. There was a great warmth and tolerance in this destitute setting.
-- Anders Petersen -
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 -
Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.
-- Anthony Daniels -
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I have a very open mind. I believe that there's a spirit world. I believe that there's a lot of stuff out there that we don't know about, don't want to understand, and sometimes we don't want to understand it.
-- Anthony Head -
Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.
-- Aristotle -
I was high on life but eventually I built up a tolerance.
-- Arj BarkerSource : Doug Benson, Tony Camin, Arj Barker (2005). “The Marijuana-logues: Everything About Pot That We Could Remember”, p.23, Crown Archetype
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If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!
-- Arlene FrancisSource : Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
-- Arthur HelpsSource : Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”
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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 -
Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.
-- Arthur KeithSource : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”
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People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.
-- Arthur M. JollySource : The Questionnaire Interview, 2010.
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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 ShakurSource : Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.277, Zed Books
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People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.
-- Assata Shakur