Quotes about Tolerance
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
- John Calvin
When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.
- Mahatma Gandhi
... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.
- George Washington
It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.
- Giles Fraser
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.
- Paulo Coelho
Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.
- Brian Tracy
To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.
- Samuel Johnson
Don't wound someone's eye trying to remove the twig from it.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.
- Joseph Brodsky
I hope I stand for antibigotry, anti-Semitism, antiracism. This is what drives me.
- George H. W. Bush