Tolerance Quotes

"Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance."
-Woodrow Wilson

"The highest result of education is tolerance."
-Helen Keller

"Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess."
-Heinrich Heine

"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
-Kahlil Gibran

"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."
-Ralph W. Sockman

"To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love."
-Frank Moore Colby

"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."
-Maria Montessori

"Let all people live in harmony… Men should be taught and won over by reason, not by blows, insults, and corporal punishments. I therefore most earnestly admonish the adherents of the true religion not to injure or insult the Galilaeans in any way… Those who are in the wrong in matters of supreme importance are objects of pity rather than of hate…."
-Julian The Apostate

"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity and tolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
-Aldous Huxley

"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."
-Agnes Repplier

"The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world."
-Morris Dees

"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity."
-Francis Maitland Balfour

"Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony."
-John Perry Barlow

"We have to start with the basic rules. There has to be zero tolerance."
-Alfredo Hernandez

"Sometimes with secret pride I sigh, To think how tolerant am I; Then wonder which is really mine: Tolerance, or a rubber spine?"
-Ogden Nash

"When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That's something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. When they talk about values, they're talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values."
-Bill Maher

"A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year."
-Paul Sweeney

"The inflation rate is near the upper end of the Fed's tolerance zone, and it shows little inclination to go in the other direction."
-Richard Fisher

"Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence."
-Pervez Musharraf

"Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred."
-Jacques Barzun

"The government will continue to observe maximum tolerance."
-Roilo Golez

"Most G.M.Os undergo rigorous lab testing to check human and animal tolerance. If something is found to cause an adverse reaction, it is not put on sale, it's as simple as that. Conventional crops don't have that advantage."
-Julian Morris

"We have zero tolerance here for fighting and drugs."
-Donna Walker

"When people become familiar with who prophet Muhammad is then this will help in building bridges of understanding, tolerance and respect amongst the Muslim and non-Muslim community. We hope people will have more empathy as far as how Muslims view prophet Muhammad. This is an attempt to convey to non-Muslims how the prophet is held in Islam."
-Icgkc President Shahir Sahi

"[From this experience] the students have become more interested in life science, and now have an intimate involvement with vegetables. Some kids are out selling the vegetables? they could end up building a career through sustainable foods. From working together, these kids learn respect and tolerance for other cultures."
-Bob Patterson

"Has a zero-tolerance policy for any racial or ethnic discrimination or discrimination of any kind."
-Fisher Deberry

"There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be vain indeed to look for a similar one in the past of any other European country."
-Ignace Paderewski