Quotes about Tolerance

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love

You deserve very little credit for being what you are—and remember, the people who come to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserve very little discredit for being what they are. Feel sorry for the poor devils. Pity them. Sympathize with them. Say to yourself: "There, but for the grace of God, go I.

Principle 9 - Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.

To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand

You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

If it is a choice to be right or kind, always choose kind.

What can't be helped must be endured.

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community)

I'm no expert, but I know one thing about anger—it's like alcohol. At some point, if you pour enough in there, it's coming back up. You may think you've built up a tolerance, but the truth is this—no man, not even Unc, can bury it so deep that it doesn't erupt at some point like Vesuvius and splatter your soul across the earth.

Every person is different. Yet often, those differences are not understood or valued by others.

To live with another within the compass of one heart: I must move to the side, must make myself small, so that the other has space and does not feel crowded.

That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends to a standard of perfection, or if they do that to us, we will end up far lonelier than we want to be.