All Quotes By Tag: Tolerance
“Most people have extremely high tolerance levels for intolerance.”
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“A new religion with only one commandment: Thou shalt not tell others how to live.”
“Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d’y croire.”
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“The Catholic chruch as threatened your life – do you not want revenge? Have you not sold your hatred to the Pretestant cause to work against the church that has hunted you?””No,” I said simply. “I hate no one. I want only to be left in peace to understand the mysteries of the universe in my own way.””God has already laid out for us the mysteries of the universe, or as much as He permits us to understand. You think your way is better?””Better than these wars of dogma that have led men to burn and fillet one another across Europe for fifty years? Yes, I do.””Then what is it you believe?”I looked at him. “I believe that, in the end, even the devils will be pardoned.”
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“War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?”
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“All of the world’s religions have important things to teach us, and they are not as different from each other as some would have you believe.”
“I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.”
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“Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.”
“Im Verlaufe nicht nur der ökonomischen, sondern auch der politischen Globalisierung kann das kardinale völkerrechtliche Prinzip der Nichteinmischung in Gefahr geraten. Besonders gilt dies für dasVerhältnis des Westens zur islamischen Kultur. Vornehmlich von meinem toten muslimischen Freunde Anwar as-Sadat habe ich den Respekt gegenüber anderen Religionen gelernt. Ich habe von ihm gelernt die gleichen Wurzeln von Judentum und Christentum und Islam. Und inzwischen habe ich ausserdem gelernt, dass Konfuzius, Sokrates oder Lao Tse und ebenso Zarathustra und Gautama Buddha ein halbes Jahrtausend, Moses oder Echnaton ein ganzes Jahrtausend vor Jesus von Nazareth gelebt haben – und dass sie wahrscheinlich deswegen doch nicht unglücklicher gewesen sind als wir Heutigen. Unter den globalisierten Umständen der heutigen Menschheit geziemt jedermann Respekt und Toleranz gegenüber den Kulturen der anderen.”
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“Should we tolerate the blatant incorrectness of religion? Tolerating ignorance, superstition and stupidity will not provide for a healthy advancement of our society. Religion is cancer for modern thought, rationality, and even common sense.”
“Common man’s patience will bring him more happiness than common man’s power.”
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“ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE STILL THINK THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO GET THERE, THEIR OWN WAY, AND IF WE DIDN’T FOLLOW IT, WE WOULD ALL GET LOST.”
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“You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for the varied paths of religion are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being, extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, anxious to receive all.”
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“It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.”
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“The best knowledge is to be kind.”
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