Quotes with tolerance

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  • Francis Maitland Balfour The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
    Francis Maitland Balfour
    British biologist (1851 - 1882)
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  • Barack Obama America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Toni Morrison Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Kofi Annan If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Carolina Herrera A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Begum Aga Khan Families are the best place to learn and practice mutual tolerance and acceptance.
    Interview with FOCUS Magazine, July 2005
    Begum Aga Khan
    French Egyptian artist and last wife of Sultan Aga Khan III (1906 - 2000)
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  • Malcolm Forbes Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Albert Claude For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Agnes Repplier Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Bruce Davison I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi I've always maintained there is no incompatibility between Islam and democracy. The Europeans in general confuse Islam and Islamism. Islamism is a political movement that instrumentalises the religion to get to power, which has nothing to do with religion. Islam here in Tunisia is a religion of openness, of tolerance.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Brandon Lee If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.
    Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
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  • Kofi Annan Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Dalai Lama (14th) In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
    Dalai Lama (14th)
    Tibetan spiritual leader (Tenzin Gyatso) (1935 - )
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  • Quentin Crisp It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Alexander Chase More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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