quotations about tolerance
It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
HERBERT SAMUEL
attributed, Chalcedon Report, 1995
Small town doesn't have to be synonymous with small-minded. Investing in public infrastructure that not only adds colour to a community's landscape but also promotes tolerance and love is hardly a waste of resources. It's an investment in the education and security of its citizens.
HEATHER MAGEE
"Teaching Tolerance In Small-town B.C.", Huffington Post, May 19, 2017
To tolerate is to insult.
BRUCE LEE
Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
KARL R. POPPER
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Wishful thinking about the peaceful tolerance of Islam cannot interpret away this reality: hands are still cut off, women still stoned and enslaved, just as the prophet Muhammad decided centuries ago.
AYAAN HIRSI ALI
Infidel
We tolerate everybody, because we doubt everything; or else we tolerate nobody, because we believe something.
THEODORE TILTON
Sanctum Sanctorum
Tolerance is the ability to smile when someone else's child behaves as badly as your own.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Then, there's the idea that tolerance can be abused. This idea is complicated. Obviously there is a difference between tolerating a person and tolerating a violent person. But to be a gatekeeper or enforcer of the rules of tolerance is dangerous. To say a certain belief or lifestyle shouldn't be tolerated because people of that belief or lifestyle tend to be intolerant is assuming a lot.
NOAH GUILLEN
"Selective Tolerance Is Just Intolerance", The Advocate, May 18, 2017
Toleration befits fallible beings.
ARTHUR O'LEARY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Changing people entirely isn't tolerating them, any more than cutting down a tree and fashioning a chair out of it is tolerating nature.
NOAH GUILLEN
"Selective Tolerance Is Just Intolerance", The Advocate, May 18, 2017
Opening our hearts, our eyes and our artistic visions to people of all abilities is more than tolerance, is more than even acceptance; it enriches our own humanity, and allows all of us to be our best.
KAREN PETERSON
"Dancing is not just for the 'perfect' bodies", Miami Herald, April 30, 2017
This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.
SUSAN JACOBY
The Age of American Unreason
Tolerance is an attitude, a way of dealing with other people -- it is not a dictum that people have to adopt without knowing what it really means or feeling it is right.
YASEMIN KARAKASOGLU
"Is the debate about 'Leitkultur' typically German?", Deutsche Welle, May 5, 2017
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. That is my religion, and every day I am sorely, grossly, heinously and deeply offended, wounded, mortified and injured by a thousand different blasphemies against it. When the fundamental canons of truth, honesty, compassion and decency are hourly assaulted by fatuous bishops, pompous, illiberal and ignorant priests, politicians and prelates, sanctimonious censors, self-appointed moralists and busy-bodies, what recourse of ancient laws have I? None whatever. Nor would I ask for any. For unlike these blistering imbeciles my belief in my religion is strong and I know that lies will always fail and indecency and intolerance will always perish.
STEPHEN FRY
"Trefusis Blasphemes", Paperweight
Tolerance is for cowards. Being tolerant requires nothing from you but to be quiet and to not make waves, holding tightly to your views and judgments without being challenged. Do not tolerate each other. Work hard, move into uncomfortable territory and understand each other.
RANDALL STEPHENSON
"AT&T CEO doubles down on 'tolerance is for cowards' comments", Dallas Business Journal, May 17, 2017
If tolerance is not universally celebrated as a virtue or attitude, neither is toleration universally recommended as an act or practice. If we truly believe that our own way of life is best, why should we tolerate--that is, put up with--inferior, maybe corrupt, ways? Champions of toleration themselves do not show forbearance to absolutely everything. They, too, draw lines. They just draw them at different places. The language of tolerance and toleration, critics conclude, simply masks different judgments about where those lines should be drawn.
HANS OBERDIEK
Tolerance: Between Forbearance and Acceptance
I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to one's own habits, beliefs, and tastes. Thus being tolerant does not mean being indifferent towards the actions and feelings of others. Understanding and empathy must also be present.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
attributed, Albert Einstein: The Human Side
For years, it's conservatives who have been branded as intolerant, often for good reason. But conservatives will tell you that liberals demonstrate their own intolerance, using the strictures of political correctness as a weapon of oppression.
MATTHEW HUTSON
"Why Liberals Aren't as Tolerant as They Think", Politico, May 9, 2017
Toleration of religious opinion is an absurdity, and dangerous to salvation.
POPE LEO XII
attributed, Day's Collacon
We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance.
RUSH LIMBAUGH
The Rush Limbaugh Show, March 7, 2012