T Quotes
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“Tolerance is the assumption of superiority”
“Tolerance is the better name for divinity.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Tolerance is the distance between enmity and harmony.”
“Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.”
“Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one last virtue, tolerance for its immorality. It will not tolerate condemnation of its perversions. It creates a whole new world in which only the intolerant critic of intolerable evil is evil.”
“Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When you have an immoral society that has blatantly, proudly, violated all of the commandments of God, there is one last virtue they insist upon: tolerance for their immorality.”
“Tolerance is the one essential ingredient ... You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.”
“Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.”
Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
“Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.”
Source: The Way to Communal Harmony
“Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.”
“Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree”
“Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.”
“Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.”
“Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.”
“Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.”
“Tolerance is the worst roar of all, including tolerance for homosexuals, feminists, and religions that don't follow Christ.”
“Tolerance is thin gruel compared to the rapture of absolute truths. It's not surprising that religious people are often better protected by atheists and agnostics than each other.”
“Tolerance is understanding. It is open to new light. Those who are tolerant are always eager to explore viewpoints other than their own.”
“Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.”
“Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.”
“Tolerance means to fix our mind, to fix our words, & our actions on a higher principle.”
“Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.”
Source: Killosophy
“Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another’s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on political or public policy choices. Tolerance is a way of reacting to diversity, not a command to insulate it from examination.”
“Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged torture of defenseless creatures, it increases our receptivity to human cruelty and war and steals our humanity, peace and soul. Very little speeds and greases your way to Hell, like animal cruelty.”
“Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow up.”
“Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social adjustment springs from diversity and depends upon a tolerance of individual deviations from conventional ways and attitudes.”
“Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.”
“Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.”
“Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.”
Source: The Good Life
“Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all.”
“Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.”
“Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.”
“Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.”
“Tolerance sounds like a virtue, and at times it may be. [But should] a parent be tolerant of behavior that is harming a child? Or the police be tolerant of criminals who prey upon others? Should doctors be tolerant of disease, or public schoolteachers tolerant of any answer on an exam, no matter how wrong?”
“Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.”
“Tolerance, tolerance, tolerance!
Nay - acceptance, acceptance, acceptance!
Accept people for who they are,
to change them never you desire!
To see love, you gotta be love incarnate.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“Tolerance, tolerance, tolerance, that's the watchword of civilization.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Tolerance toward that which is radically evil now appears as good because it serves the cohesion of the whole on the road to affluence or more affluence. The toleration of the systematic moronization of children and adults alike by publicity and propaganda, the release of destructiveness in aggressive driving, the recruitment for and training of special forces, the impotent and benevolent tolerance toward outright deception in merchandizing, waste, and planned obsolescence are not distortions and aberrations, they are the essence of a system which fosters tolerance as a means for perpetuating the struggle for existence and suppressing the alternatives. The authorities in education, morals, and psychology are vociferous against the increase in juvenile delinquency; they are less vociferous against the proud presentation, in word and deed and pictures, of ever more powerful missiles, rockets, bombs--the mature delinquency of a whole civilization.”
Source: Repressive Tolerance
“Tolerance was like one of those soothing creams—it drew out inflammation, it did away with the pain.”
Source: At the Reunion Buffet
“Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.”
Source: Killosophy
“Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element of moral systems; it is a very important source of spiritual discipline and a celestial virtue of perfected people.”
Source: Toward Global Civilization Love Tolerance
“Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.”
“Tolerance, inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more essential than ever in a world where peoples are becoming more and more closely interconnected.”
“Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.”
“Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.”
“Tolerans değil, akseptans ihtiyaç vardır.”
“Tolerar a intolerância é ódio passivo.”
Source: Monge Cientista
“Tolerar la intolerancia es odio pasivo.”
Source: Abigitano: El Divino Refugiado
“Tolerate no discrimination and moderate no compassion.”
Source: See No Gender