Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Fry

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

Sam Harris

Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance.

Stefan Zweig

As one who knows many things, the humanist loves the world precisely because of its manifold nature and the opposing forces in itdo not frighten him. Nothing is further from him than the desire to resolve such conflictsand this is precisely the mark of the humanist spirit: not to evaluate contrasts as hostility but to seek human unity, that superior unity, for all that appears irreconcilable.

Ravi Zacharias

Today, sensitivities are at an all-time high - and rightfully so. Tolerance of different races and religions have been lacking over the years, but pluralism has given way to relativism.

Neil Gaiman

I have a really high tolerance level for twits. I really do.

Margaret Halsey

Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.

John Rawls

An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty. ... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.

Montel Williams

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

Miranda Richardson

I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.

Mason Cooley

Tolerance is a placid contempt.

Patti Page

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

Lizz Winstead

Unless you can point to something that I have done or said that has changed the course of the public opinion in a negative way, you've got to check yourself sometimes and say, "Maybe I don't like the way that this thing is said, but it's expanding tolerance." If I said something that was shutting down something that was positive, call me out, but I don't really see me doing that.

Alexis de Tocqueville

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

Herbert Marcuse

While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies.

Henry Louis Gates

The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

George Eliot

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant ...

Frank Knox

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

George Bernard Shaw

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

George Bernard Shaw

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

Eoin Colfer

Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.

Greg Gutfeld

You also wonder if a restaurant placed an ad that read, "Only homeless need apply," would they get fined? Probably not. But if they said, "No homeless apply," they would be transient bigots. For as bureaucrats use language to punish the lawful, they use tolerance to coddle the troubled.

Bertrand Russell

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

Francois Rabelais

Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.

Jean Guitton

The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.”

Giacomo Leopardi

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Frank Herbert

To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule

Barack Obama

Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

Meryl Streep

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

We used to be pampered, now we are searched. The frustration tolerance has been decreased.