"Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it."
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"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity."
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"Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him."
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""In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.""
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"Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe."
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"I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine."
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"The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives."
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"All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them."
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"We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we tend to pursue our own interests at the expense of others. Our various religious traditions exist to help us reduce these problems. They all teach ways to overcome suffering through cultivating love and compassion, tolerance, patience and contentment."
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"Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance."
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"Tolerance means to fix our mind, to fix our words, & our actions on a higher principle."
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"What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature."
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"True universalists are not those who preach global tolerance of differences and all-encompassing unity, but those who engage in a passionate struggle for the assertion of the Truth which compels them."
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"I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true."
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"Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause."
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"Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody."
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"Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different."
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"Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion."
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"Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics."
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"In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out."
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