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A thick skin is a gift from God.
-Konrad Adenauer
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Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
-Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings who thought of themselves as civilized. What, we must ask, does our civilization possess that is worth defending? One thing worth defending, I suggest, is the imperative to imagine the lives of beings who are not ourselves and are not like ourselves: animals, plants, gods, spirits, people of other countries, other races, people of the other sex, places and enemies.
-Wendell Berry
Peaceableness Toward Enemies (Reflections on the first Gulf War), 1991
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
-Edmund Burke
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There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
-Edmund Burke
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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
-Frank Moore Colby
The Colby Essays, vol. 1, Trials of an Encyclopedist, 1926
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
-Aleister Crowley
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It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.
Tenzin Gyatso (1935- ), 14th Dailai Lama
-Dalai Lama
Ocean of Wisdom; Guidelines for Living, 1989
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Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
-Samuel Davies
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The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
-Princess of Wales Diana
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Travel teaches tolerance.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.
-George Eliot
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
-E. M. Forster
Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
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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
-Mahatma Gandhi
Young India, (Bulletin), February 10, 1930
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
-Sir James Goldsmith
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
-Sydney J. Harris
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Intolerance is the Do Not Touch sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.
-Eric Hoffer
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
-Helen Keller
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The highest result of education is tolerance.
-Helen Keller
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Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions.
-Thomas Kempis
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What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
-Robert Francis Kennedy
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Books about Tolerance
