Quotes about tolerance

"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none."

Burke, Edmund on tolerance
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"There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue."

Burke, Edmund on tolerance
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"Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love."

Colby, Frank Moore on tolerance   

"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on tolerance
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"As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints."

Colton, Charles Caleb on tolerance
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"Travel teaches tolerance."

Disraeli, Benjamin on tolerance
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"Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things."

Forster, Edward M. on tolerance   

"Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause."

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

Goldsmith, Sir James on tolerance
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"Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting."

Harris, Sidney J. on tolerance   

"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."

Keller, Helen on tolerance
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"The highest result of education is tolerance."

Keller, Helen on tolerance
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"Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions."

Kempis, Thomas on tolerance   

"People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones."

Kettering, Charles F. on tolerance
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"To tolerant everything is too teach nothing."

Kinsman, F. J. on tolerance   

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

Leopardi, Giacomo on tolerance   

"Tolerance is only another name for indifference."

Maugham, W. Somerset on tolerance   

"For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion."

More, Thomas on tolerance   

"You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. [Accepting his Independent Spirit Award]"

Penn, Sean on tolerance   

"It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own."

Samuel, Herbert on tolerance
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"Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man."

Seneca on tolerance   

"When tolerance is not afforded to those so well-deserved, it speaks ill of the one who feels he cannot afford to give it."

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"Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs."

White, William Allen on tolerance   

"Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect."

neuhaus, richard john on tolerance   

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

Mann, Thomas on tolerance
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"It is not difficult to convert a negative into a positive, given that a high level of tolerance remains persistent."

Majeed, Muhammad Tariq on tolerance