Toleration Quotes

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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

The equal toleration of all religions...is the same as atheism.

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity.

No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

Toleration is the best religion.

Toleration made the world anti-Christian.

Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

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.

Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.

Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.

I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.

in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.

The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.

Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide.

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.

Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!

The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.

Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.

All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.

Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.

If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures that are painted of Him.

Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has let loose among us.

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.

Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.

What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.

It's about religious acceptance, it's no longer about religious tolerance.

I am the thread of unification that goes through humans of all religions, cultures and ideologies while reinforcing their innate sense of one humanity.

I work to make human beings out of human bodies. I work to make conscience out of mindlessness. I work to make Gods out of obedient worshippers.