Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-20] of 294 Tolerance quotesTolerance QuotesTolerance Next 20 quotes Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.~ Lord Acton To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.~ Franklin P. Adams I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.~ John Adams The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected, in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.~ John Quincy Adams No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.~ Aesop I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.~ Lisa Alther The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will.~ Matthew Arnold Near our vineyard there was a pear tree laden with fruit that was not attractive in either flavor or form. One night, when I [at the age of sixteen] had played until dark on the sandlot with some other juvenile delinquents, we went to shake that tree and carry off its fruit. From it we carried off huge loads, not to feast on, but to throw to the pigs, although we did eat a few ourselves. We did it just because it was forbidden.~ Saint Augustine Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly, to correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment.~ Ben H. Bagdikian The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.~ James Baldwin Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.~ Tallulah Bankhead Cocaine habit forming? Of course not. I ought to know, I've been using it for years.~ Tallulah Bankhead The country's first drug ban explicitly targeted the opium of "the heathen Chinee." Cocaine was first banned in the south to prevent an uprising of hopped-up "cocainized Negroes.~ Dan Baum Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.~ Judge David Bazelon We are all born mad. Some remain so.~ Samuel Beckett The whole point of the liberal revolution that gave rise to the 1960’s was to free us from somebody else’s dogma, but now the same people…are striving to impose on others a secularized religion…disguising it behind innocuous labels like ‘diversity training’ and ‘respect for difference.’~ Richard Bernstein But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?~ Daniel Joseph Berrigan Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.~ Sir Walter Besant Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print