Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 294 Tolerance quotesTolerance QuotesTolerance Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.~ Mary McLeod Bethune The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.~ Ambrose Bierce Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.~ Ambrose Bierce Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.~ Ambrose Bierce A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.~ Leon Blum If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.~ Napoleon Bonaparte We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.~ Daniel Boorstin No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more pernicious sentiment ever tormented the heart than the barbarous desire to do so. The field of inquiry should remain open, and the right of debate must be regarded as a sacred right.~ William E. Borah Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. Better a thousand fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people.~ Charles Bradlaugh All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance – unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].~ Justice William J. Brennan Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.~ Kingman Brewster Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.~ Bellamy Brooks The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught.~ Patrick J. Buchanan Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished.~ William F. Buckley, Jr. Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.~ Luther Burbank Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.~ Edmund Burke Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.~ Albert Camus When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.~ Al Capone It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.~ Joyce Cary Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print