Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-80] of 294 Tolerance quotesTolerance QuotesTolerance Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.~ Norman Cousins The holier-than-thou activists who blame the population for not spending more money on their personal crusades are worse than aggravating. They encourage the repudiation of personal responsibility by spreading the lie that support of a government program fulfills individual moral duty.~ Patrick Cox The big thieves hang the little ones.~ Czech Proverb There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.~ Clarence S. Darrow The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.~ Clarence S. Darrow He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.~ Salvador De Madariaga A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.~ Michel De Montaigne In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils it creates…~ Alexis de Tocqueville If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.~ Alan Dershowitz If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.~ Rene Descartes Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent…The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.~ John G. Diefenbaker Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.~ Benjamin Disraeli The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.~ Justice William O. Douglas The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.~ Frederick Douglass The most may err as grossly as the few.~ John Dryden The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.~ Friedrich Durrenmatt History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.~ Abba Eban Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.~ Albert Einstein Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population.~ Albert Einstein To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot. But I am persuaded that such behavior on the part of the representatives of religion would not only be unworthy but also fatal. For a doctrine which is able to maintain itself not in clear light, but only in the dark, will of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with incalculable harm to human progress.~ Albert Einstein Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print