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Tolerance Quotes

Tolerance Definition  
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
E. M. Forster

Tolerance is another word for indifference.
W. Somerset Maugham

Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.
Jay Inslee

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.
Arthur Keith

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.
Robert Casey

Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.
Jay Inslee

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
James Goldsmith

We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.
Charlie Dent

We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
Jeff Miller

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.
Ridley Scott

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
Helen Hayes

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
Virginia Woolf

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham

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