Quotes of: Religious-tolerance Keyword

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

James Goldsmith

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Anais Nin

In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total eradication is an impossibility. The secret of attaining peace in life is tolerance of disturban...

The True Jihad: The Concept of Peace, Tolerance and Non Violence in Islam

Tolerance is the essential starting point for compassion. That’s why it is so emphasized in our society right now. In a world full of discrimination, prejudice, and marginalization, people need to be taught to tolerate people who are different. Tol...

Stephen Lovegrove

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

Sidney Hook

As the word 'tolerance' grows in popularity, tolerance for pure, unadulterated Christian doctrine appears to be shrinking.

Monica Johnson

I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.

How to Be a Woman

Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.

Montel Williams

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

Jay Inslee

I support zero tolerance. But I draw the line at negative integers.

John Alejandro King

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

William Allen White

Toleration is the prerogative of humanity; we are all full of weaknesses and mistakes; let us reciprocally forgive ourselves. It is the first law of nature. La tolérance, c'est l'apanage de l'humanité; nous sommes tous pétris de faiblesse et d'err...

A Treatise on Toleration and Other Essays

Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own people! Sooner or later, the primitiveness of the religious administrations and the irrationality of the religious ...

Mehmet Murat ildan

He who is master of himself cannot tolerate another boss.

Chinese

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

Leon Wieseltier

[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr] [Niels] Bohr's sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of indebtedness, obligation, and guilt, and his sense of responsibility for science, community, and, ultimately...

Love, Literature, and the Quantum Atom: Niels Bohr's 1913 Trilogy Revisited

I have argued elsewhere (Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence [2005]) that we need to treat ethics in biblical texts just as we treat ethics in any other works of ancient literature. It is a vacuous exercise to pick and choose which atro...

Hector Avalos

Love of God thus becomes the dominant passion of life; like every other worth-while love, it demands and inspires sacrifice. But love of God and man, as an ideal, has lately been replaced by the new ideal of tolerance which inspires no sacrifice. Why...

Peace of Soul: Timeless Wisdom on Finding Serenity and Joy by the Century's Most Acclaimed Catholic Bishop

...what a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are)-...

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not even on board the slave ship. Toleration of a wrong is not law.

Lysander Spooner

You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?

Michael Gove