Tolerance Quotes

“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.”

“Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people? If, when you go out to organise, you go with a broad spirit, you will create and call out breadth and toleration. You had better organise one woman on a broad platform than 10,000 on a narrow platform of intolerance and bigotry.”

“What you should do is to say to outsiders that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist.”

“Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.”

“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.”

“The highest result of education is 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.”

“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.”

“In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.”

“In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.”

“To bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.”

George Washington

“Live and let live.”

English Proverb

“As the earth bears those who dig into it, so bear with those who revile you.”

Thiruvalluvar

"God is not a Christian."

Desmond Tutu

"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

Anne Lamott

“Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.”

“I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance.”

“Sectarianism, bigotry, and its horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful earth.”

“Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.”