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... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassi...

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Another example was relentlessly expressed during Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the presidency, and...

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In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in not...

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I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument a...

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It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one...

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America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tole...

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Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil … a forbearance that restrains us from sho...

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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what ...

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Love of God thus becomes the dominant passion of life; like every other worth-while love, it demands...

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Fulton J. SheenPeace of Soul: Timeless Wisdom on Finding Serenity and Joy by the Century's Most Acclaimed Catholic Bishop

Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many...

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Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begi...

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If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between me...

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Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of peopl...

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He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different me...

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Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he...

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The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wron...

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The highest result of education is tolerance

Im Verlaufe nicht nur der ökonomischen, sondern auch der politischen Globalisierung kann das kardina...

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A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance tow...

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It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for ...

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You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every dece...

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The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to b...

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That was the heart of the problem: every choice made sense from some vantage point.

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Jacob M. AppelThe Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up

You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but ther...

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What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German c...

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If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for dive

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, i...

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God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us t...

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The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone...

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Jonathan SacksThe Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it ge...

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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims...

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Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police st...

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I tell you that what has changed is the whole conception of human life- that men of every race on th...

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Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ig...

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More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of ...

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I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to b...

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I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to b...

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Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. T...

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I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim...

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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being the ...

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools

I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system th...

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I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or ...

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The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance...

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When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is ...

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Milan KunderaThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.

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Paulo CoelhoWarrior of the Light

The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Cou...

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A tolerance that no longer distinguishes between good and evil would become chaotic and self-destruc...

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It is obvious that the concept of truth has become suspect. Of course it is correct that is has been...

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Pope Benedict XVILight of the World: The Pope

Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is wor...

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Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it?

All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.

Once past the comfort zone in either direction, humans soon lost the ability to discriminate bad fro...

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Roger ZelaznyBring Me the Head of Prince Charming

Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting l...

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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actu...

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My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance.

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Dreams then were to be expressed in building railroads and factories, in boring gas wells, stringing...

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Nowadays, you can do anything that you want—anal, oral, fisting—but you need to be wearing gloves, c...

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One day, the old wise Socrates walks down the streets, when all of the sudden a man runs up to him "...

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If you held to principle so passionately, so inflexibly, indifferent in the particulars of circumsta...

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I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and t...

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Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what ...

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You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can som...

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Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if cons...

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Theodore RooseveltThe Man In The Arena: Speeches and Essays by Theodore Roosevelt

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is ...

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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

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Thomas MannThe Magic Mountain

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all ...

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I will conclude this work with stating in what light religion appears to me.If we suppose a large fa...

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Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.

...am so deeply impressed with the fair mindedness and tolerance of the American people...

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us ...

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What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardo...

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VoltairePhilosophical Dictionary

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

[Professor Greene's] reaction to GAMAY, as published in the Yale Daily News, fairly took one's breat...

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When my little group get together, if we disagree about something, we can sort it out. Example: Moho...

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These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand ov...

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If a man, having lashed two hulls together, is crossing a river, and an empty boat happens along and...

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We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, toleranc...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, ...

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The building is rather like a medieval Castle and was established in the Sixth Century and soon afte...

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...we have no right to decide off-hand that it is an unnatural pleasure to eat sawdust. A man might ...

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It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated pe...

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Tolerance was like one of those soothing creams—it drew out inflammation, it did away with the pain.

True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To de...

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Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful tr...

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Allan BloomThe Closing of the American Mind

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

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In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek