"Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people"
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"And for those of you who want to start any trouble, I have a zero tolerance policy. . . ."
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"Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right."
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"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."
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"Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive"
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"The best defense for any group of people is what we do to defend other people."
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"Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth."
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"God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder."
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"Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility."
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"Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil."
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"I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one"
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"I have a really high tolerance level for twits. I really do."
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"For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world."
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"The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant."
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"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"
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"I understand that in the UK there have already been 10,000 complaints from viewers about these remarks, which people see, rightly, as offensive. I want Britain to be seen as a country of fairness and tolerance. Anything detracting from this I condemn."
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"The tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that sum of all villainies - so they see no injustice in it, yet that which is unjust is unjust still."
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"We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind."
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"Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront."
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"One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?"
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