Tolerance Quotes

We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people.

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

Tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. 'Choice' is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper.

There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about. We will have zero tolerance for anyone who is intolerant.

I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.

North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.

If you're gay or religious you're always hearing this word tolerance. It's a pathetic word. It's actually just a politically correct word for the term intolerance.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.