Quotes about Tolerance

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.

Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.

Let us be kinder to one another.

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me

Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.

If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

Be ye kind one to another.

At the time of the liberation of the camps, I remember, we were convinced that after Auschwitz there would be no more wars, no more racism, no more hatred, no more anti-Semitism. We were wrong. This produced a feeling close to despair. For if Auschwitz could not cure mankind of racism, was there any chance of success ever? The fact is, the world has learned nothing. Otherwise, how is one to comprehend the atrocities committed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia…

Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.