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• Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

  Bruce Springsteen

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• 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.

  Bruce Davison

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• I believe that the capital of the Republic of Albania is a suitable venue for discussing the dialogue among religions and civilizations, notably in the countries of South East Europe, because we are well familiar with this country’s track record of religious tolerance.

  Georgi Parvanov

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• The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

  George Eliot

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• Tolerance always has limits – it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

  Sidney Hook

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• Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.

  Scott Hamilton

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• Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

  G. K. Chesterton

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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

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• I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• Now, I think that in acknowledging that every individual Member of Parliament and indeed every individual member of the Labour Party, has rights to express their view in a spirit of tolerance.

  Ron Davies

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• Tolerance – the function of an extinguished ardor – tolerance cannot seduce the young.

  Emil Cioran

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• Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

  Walter Koenig

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• People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It’s the American way. If you don’t like something, kill it.

  Carl Olson

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  In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

  Dalai Lama

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• Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

  Bertrand Russell

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• The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

  Ralph W. Sockman

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• So oft in theologic wars,
  The disputants, I ween,
  Rail on in utter ignorance
  Of what each other mean,
  And prate about an Elephant
  Not one of them has seen!

  John Godfrey Saxe

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• Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict [slavery] might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.

  Abraham Lincoln

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• Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

  Steven Runciman

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• Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

  Robert F. Kennedy

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