Quotes about Tolerance

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

For human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate.

human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate. Only understanding for our neighbors, justice in our dealings, and willingness to help our fellow men can give human society permanence and assure security for the individual.

It is human variability -- the fact that one man's meat is is another man's poison -- that imposes on us the duty of preserving individual liberty and of encouraging tolerance, of preventing majorities from repressing minorities, of permitting people to have a certain measure of self-determination in their lives.

Wisdom never puts enmity anywhere.

For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today.

We should strive to treat each other with common Human Decency

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

It's not your job to get people to like you, it's your job to like people.