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  • There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

  • We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.

    School   Mean   Winning  
  • Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

    "Words Of Wisdom: Selected Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama" edited by Margaret Gee, (p. 71), 2001.
  • The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.

    Heart   Hair   Sacred  
  • In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

    C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

  • It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.

  • In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.

    Death   Animal   Agony  
    Ouida (1901). “Critical Studies”
  • Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

    Evil   Tolerance   Doe  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.51, Courier Corporation
  • I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses; and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.

    Men   House   Mind  
    Walter Savage Landor (1876). “Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen”, p.90
  • We don't welcome the naked and hungry so they can be naked and hungry in our company. We clothe and feed. Hospitality is not toleration but transformation.

  • Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old-time rail journey—delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.

  • The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

    Music   Growth   Ears  
  • Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

  • A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.

    Life   Pain   War  
  • A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

    Billy Graham (1993). “Hope for the Troubled Heart: Finding God in the Midst of Pain”, Bantam
  • I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

    Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.73, Hachette UK
  • We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated

    Trust   Basketball   Nba  
  • I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.

  • Toleration, holding that every other man has the same right to his opinion and faith that we have to ours; and liberality, holding that as no human being can with certainty say, in the clash and conflict of hostile faiths and creeds, what is truth, or that he is surely in possession of it, so everyone should feel that it is quite possible that another equally honest and sincere with himself, and yet holding the contrary opinion, may himself be in possession of the truth.

    Men   May   Opinion  
  • toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.

    Dorothee Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press
  • You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run.

  • It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!

  • I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

    Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria
  • What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

    Errors   Law   Tolerance  
  • Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick - and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn't.

    "Understanding the Religious Reich or The American and World-Wide Threat of Fundamentalism" by Isaac Bonewits, Version 2.6, www.neopagan.net. 1990.
  • What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

    "Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence, Volume I: To 1877". Book by William Bruce Wheeler, Volume 2, p. 149, January 1, 2011.
  • Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. Cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents.

    Speech delivered at Scottish Church College, Kolkata, December 7, 1935.
  • Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

    Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.372, The Floating Press
  • Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.

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