Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion. Why make life miserable for someone when you can use your energy for good? We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful. When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

We [people] need to stop lumping folks together and start living together. Otherwise, we're going to kill each other off because you don't believe what I believe. That's crazy.

It's not enough to be tolerant...now we're finally moving towards the idea of acceptance.

Tolerance is the one essential ingredient ... You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

Respecting differences is very difficult.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

Even from when I was in grade school or church or wherever, I was always like: we're one, and we should respect each other and grow as one. And respect each other's diversity, of course.

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.

I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

You cannot reason with people who don't recognize the humanity in all of us.

We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

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.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

With all of the divisiveness that is going on in the country we live in, so much of it is based around just fear of the other. And anyone who does not look like me, walk like me, talk like me, have sex like me, they're the other and I'm afraid of them. And hopefully we will learn that it's just not scary. There's nothing to be afraid of.

We have taken the idea of tolerance so far that we have to put up with intolerance.

Pluralism, democracy, unity, respect all mean nothing because on the ground, we hate each other