Quotes about Tolerance
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
— Bruce Lee
Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also.
— Herman Melville
What's all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to myself—the man's a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
— Herman Melville
Queequeg no care what god made him shark,' said the savage, agonizingly lifting his hand up and down; wedder Fejee god or Nantucket god; but de god wat made shark must be one dam Ingin.
— Herman Melville
Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
— Phillips Brooks
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
— Francis de Sales
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
— Abraham Lincoln
As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'
— Parker Palmer
It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.
— Joyce Meyer
Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong.
— Rick Warren
I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.
— George Washington