Best Tolerance Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 21

Source: Thomas Jefferson: selections from his writings edited, with an introduction

“Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow up.”

Wells Past Grows Party Growing Up Republican Tolerance Mature Republican Party Dissent Hallmark

“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.”

Ifs Prepared Tolerance Destroyed Intolerance Tolerate

Book:The Open Society and Its Enemies

Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies

“I have insisted that we must be tolerant. But I also believe that this tolerance has its limits. We must not trust those anti-humanitarian religions which not only preach destruction but act accordingly. For if we tolerate them, then we become ourselves responsible for for their deeds.”

Ifs Believe Limits Destruction Responsible Deeds Humanitarian Tolerance Tolerate

Author:Karl Popper

“I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values, our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space.”

Believe Values I Believe Space Liberty Democracy Duty Commitment Tolerance Defined Openness Exclusive Civics Civic Duty Internationalism Shared Values

Author:David Blunkett

“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.”

Way House Risk Higher Tolerance Saving Savings Bankers Brokers

Author:Ron Chernow

“Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.”

Thinking Firsts Believe Christian Together Religious Findings Tolerance Religious Tolerance Commonality

Author:Dennis Quaid

“If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.”

Ifs Found Limits Tolerance Insane Finding Yourself

Author:Brandon Lee

“Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.”

People Littles Tolerance Propaganda Smack

Author:Rebecca MacKinnon

“Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.”

Real Seems Levels Theory Diversity Raises Tolerance Real Life Rising Our Society Discomfort Invoke

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“If we are addressing the issue of weapons of mass destruction, we need to send a uniform, consistent message that there is zero tolerance to any country who is developing weapons of mass destruction, North Korea included.”

Ifs Needs Country Issues Messages Weapons Mass Destruction Tolerance Developing Consistent Zero Uniforms Korea North Korea Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Zero Tolerance

Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that I personify the great tolerance of Britain by consenting to being regally entertained. Besides, there is a degree of truth in the view that while the left are worthier, the right are wittier.”

Should I Can Remember Left Views Degrees Tolerance Britain March Dine

Author:Will Self

“According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.”

People Wells Certain President Office Tolerance Barack Ingratitude

Author:Charlie Pierce

“For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.”

People Helping Inspiration Values Moral Source Mercy Universal Islam Tolerance Operations Source Of Inspiration

Author:Wadah Khanfar

“At Linfox we have zero tolerance. If any alcohol or drugs are found in any drivers' blood, they are instantly dismissed.”

Ifs Found Blood Drug Alcohol Tolerance Drivers Zero Zero Tolerance

Author:Lindsay Fox

“I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.”

Want Needs Children Culture Students Diversity Tolerance Vocabulary Accustomed Other Cultures

Author:Suzy Amis

“As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Attention Reader Lows Tolerance Pity Bored Boredom Handy Attention Span Short Attention Spans

Author:John Scalzi

“If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.”

Ifs Want Watches Century Stage Tolerance Comedian Wizards

Book:Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen

Source: Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen

“Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.”

People Way Wells Long Has Beens Stills Home America Moving Term Race Economy Relation South Tolerance Willingness South Africa Frustrating Long Way Race Relations Back Home North America

Author:Kandyse McClure

“I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.”

I Can Appreciate Tolerance Repetition

Author:Channing Tatum

“Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious - but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance. Women made up nearly half my class at university, and my senior academic adviser there was a woman. In Alexandria, my friends were Christians and Muslims.”

Made Christian Culture Religious Half Class Revolution My Friends University Tolerance Academic Secular Senior Moderation Adviser Alexandria

Author:Ahmed H. Zewail

“Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used.”

Giving Children Stories Use School Used Language Cases Argument Our Children Tolerance Zero Zero Tolerance

Author:Chris Crutcher

“Queens is famous throughout the world for diversity and tolerance. But really it's what we have in common that makes our neighborhoods work, our students succeed, and our families able to care for children and grandparents as they can.”

World Children Care Able Common Students Succeed Diversity Tolerance Queens Our Family Neighborhood Grandparent

Author:Grace Meng

“If a patient became sugar-free and blood sugar normal on a basal requirement diet, the caloric intake was gradually increased until sugar appeared in the urine. The tolerance was thus ascertained.”

Ifs Blood Normal Patient Tolerance Diets Sugar Requirements Blood Sugar

Author:Frederick Banting

“Tolerance and tranquility are two characteristics of true love.”

Two Tolerance Characteristics Tranquility

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.”

Today Christian Culture Tolerance Obsession Our Society Intolerance Offense

Author:Charles Colson

“One of the most obvious uses of literature, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance... Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.”

Art Use Action Literature Belief Possibility Art Is Tolerance Fanatics Bigots Belief And Action

Author:Northrop Frye

“Market risk is like taking a plunge into a cool pool ... a lot of people are finding out right now what their risk tolerance is.”

People Risk Right Now Findings Tolerance Pool Plunge Market Risk

Author:William J. Bernstein

“One of the things I think the next president has to do is to stop fanning people's fears. If we spend all our time feeding the American people fear and conflict and division, then they become fearful and conflicted and divided. And if we feed them hope and we feed them reason and tolerance, then they will become tolerant and reasonable and hopeful.”

People Ifs Thinking Reason Next President Conflict Tolerance Our Time Reasonable Hopeful Division Divided Fearful Feeding

Author:Barack Obama

“You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain a certain degree of anxiety, and a willingness to not know-and not even need to know. This ever widens and deepens your perspective. This is how you allow and encounter Mystery and move into the contemplative zone.”

Knows Needs Action Moving Certain Strong Grows Ability Mystery Perspective Degrees Anxiety Forgiving Tolerance Contemplation Encounters Zone Willingness Ambiguity Contemplative

Author:Richard Rohr

“Thirty years ago, interracial marriage was considered to be wrong by the laws of God. Now your society finds it common. The spiritual objections around it were either dropped or "rewritten" by those divinely inspired and authorized to do so. Therefore, your actual interpretations of the instructions from God changed with your society's tolerance level - an interesting thing, indeed, how the interpretations of God seem to change regularly to match a changing culture!”

“We must continue to show tolerance for those whose opinions and sincerely held beliefs differ from our own. We must lead by example, finding a way to respect one another and to celebrate a culture that protects religious freedom while promoting equality under the law.”

Way Shows Law Culture Belief Religious Opinion Example Protect Findings Tolerance Celebrate Promoting Sincerely Religious Freedom Equality Under The Law

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Of course we in Europe also have epidemic, structural sexual violence. Violence is always the dark core of dominance. The men who are now coming to us from Islamic cultural circles are, of course, shaped by conditions there, which are still much more antiquated than here. That's a problem that we have ignored for far too long. In the name of a false tolerance, we have accepted that women are kept at home like prisoners and are forcibly married.”

Men Long Stills Problem Home Courses Names Dark Violence Conditions He Man Married Europe Accepted Core Tolerance Circles Islamic Prisoner Ignored Epidemics Dominance

Author:Alice Schwarzer

“As soon as you opened your mouth and said the word woman, you were beaten down with the argument that you were betraying the class struggle. There are many poignant writings in which feminists first write pages about their class standpoint before getting to their actual issue. What was then known as class warfare is today called anti-racism. The threat of being accused of racism gave birth to false tolerance.”

“My whole thing is I like to hang around winners, I like winning spirits, I have zero tolerance for jealousy.”

Whole Spirit Winning Tolerance Winner Zero Zero Tolerance

Author:Taryn Manning

“I founded the King Hussein Foundation after my husband's death in 1999, to build on his humanitarian vision and legacy in the country and abroad, through programs promoting education and leadership, economic empowerment, tolerance, cross-cultural dialogue, and media that enhances mutual understanding and respect among different cultures across conflict lines.”

“When they [young people] believe they are the difference! That their voice matters and to use the incredible power each one of them has. I work with an amazing young man, Jaylen Arnold, who started a foundation and a movement to educate people about tolerance and to stop bullying when he was eight years old. He never ceases to inspire me.”

People Men Years Believe Matter Use Young Voice Differences Movement Inspire Foundation Incredibles Eight Tolerance Cease Young Man Bullying Educate

Author:Dash Mihok

“As a matter of fact, I constantly tell audiences all over the world that the single greatest icon of American culture from the publication of "To Kill A Mockingbird" was that novel so that if we say, what conversation can we have that would lead us on a road of tolerance, and teachers have decided that if you're going to teach values in a school in America, the answer that American teachers at all kinds of schools have come up with, just let Harper Lee teach "To Kill A Mockingbird." And then all the teacher has to do is stand back and guide the discussion.”

“Well, we definitely need a strong and clear and assertive America. That's for sure. But you've always got to build alliances. And so it's very important that we are able to build those alliances. And where we don't do what in a way to extremists want us to do, which is to make this into a battle between the West and Islam - it's not. This isn't a clash between civilizations. It's about whether the values of tolerance and respect for difference prevail.”

Way Want Needs Wells Important Able America Values Strong Differences Clear Civilization Battle West Islam Tolerance Want U Alliances Clash Extremist Assertive Tolerance And Respect

Author:Tony Blair

“Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.”

Humans Understanding Human Nature Tolerance Agitate

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I'm an artist living in a small, Scottish village. So one would expect to be treated with some sort of caution. And the village and the farmers have shown enormous tolerance of me and interest in what I do. I mean, they don't necessarily understand what I'm doing all the time. But they, you know, I think they respect what I do and that there is a connection between what they do with the land and what I do, you know, that we're both dependent on weather and respond to that.”

Thinking Knows Mean Artist Interest Land Connections Tolerance Enormous Treated Weather Dependent Village Do You Know Farmers Caution Scottish Hey You

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the other extreme.”

Humans Long Science Normal Extremes Tolerance Tendencies Fads

Book:Science is a sacred cow

Source: Science is a sacred cow

“It's just like calling homosexuals 'gays.' Gay means happy! You know, it's just to try to dilute it so that it becomes socially acceptable, and if you say anything against homosexual marriage or anything - 'Oh, you're not tolerant.' So we're supposed to prostitute our principles, on behalf of tolerance.”

Ifs Knows Trying Mean Principles Calling Gay Tolerance Acceptable Homosexual Say Anything Behalf Homosexual Marriage

Author:Ted Cruz

“I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay people, and the lives of those gay people will be better.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Church Greater Gay Members Tolerance Exposure Gay People Church Members

Author:Andrew Solomon

“Full and unhesitating implementation of the report's findings must now follow. I call upon the Labour Party to guarantee that there will be zero tolerance of antisemitism.”

Party Findings Tolerance Guarantees Reports Labour Zero Guarantees That Implementation Labour Party Zero Tolerance

Author:Ephraim Mirvis

“We are all more connected than ever. That connectivity builds tolerance.”

Connected Tolerance

Author:Pete Cashmore

“Yet [Dalai Lama] has said very strongly that basic freedoms of thought and speech have to be respected in Tibet and they're not at the moment. Tolerance doesn't mean accepting what's unfair.”

Mean Said Moments Accepting Speech Tolerance Very Strong Unfair Freedom Of Thought Lama Tibet Dalai

Author:Pico Iyer

“The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance.”

Heart Violence Source Hatred Tolerance Antidote

Author:Dalai Lama

“Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas .”

Important Virtue Tolerance Bodhisattva

Author:Dalai Lama

“It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a tolerance powerful enough to give such freedom.”

Thinking Giving May Enough Seems Powerful Hatred Method Tolerance Buddhist Developing Systematic

Author:Dalai Lama

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