Quotes about Tolerance

She thought of herself, "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

I think we live in a pluralistic society where we have to get along with each other and show common grace to each other.

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions. ( Essay to Leo Baeck , 1953)

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

For human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate.

human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate. Only understanding for our neighbors, justice in our dealings, and willingness to help our fellow men can give human society permanence and assure security for the individual.

It is human variability -- the fact that one man's meat is is another man's poison -- that imposes on us the duty of preserving individual liberty and of encouraging tolerance, of preventing majorities from repressing minorities, of permitting people to have a certain measure of self-determination in their lives.