Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit instigate brutal life and death struggles destroy a society's tolerance and humanity and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
It is essential to employ trust and reward those whose perspective ability and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare for it requires uncommon humility tolerance and wisdom.
I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.
Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free pluralistic society.
I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
House music is about love and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance so in that respect it's not good at all.
We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11 2001.
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents but grow out of the very essence of religion namely its absolute claims.
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion and distorts both.
In a multi-racial society trust understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
Not just Christians and Jews but also Muslims Buddhists Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace respect tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
Islam teaches tolerance not hatred universal brotherhood not enmity peace and not violence.
Tolerance compromise understanding acceptance patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
When traveling with someone take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races parties classes religions cultures regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
Of all religions the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.