"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."
— Albert Einstein

"Never judge someone
By the way he looks
Or a book by the way it's covered;
For inside those tattered pages,
There's a lot to be discovered"
— Stephen Cosgrove

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
— Thomas Jefferson, circa 1781

"As you walk through forests
or the meadows of your mind,
Stop and talk to those you fear
Good friendships you may find"
— Stephen Cosgrove (Buttermilk Bear)

"Ignorance and prejudice and fear go hand and hand"
— Rush, lyrics by Neil Peart

"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."
— Dalai Lama XIV

"When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude."
— Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)

"As most men are fettered by bonds of tradition and by imitating the ways followed by their fathers, ancestors, relatives, and acquaintances; everyone continues, without investigating the arguments and reasons, to follow the religion in which he was born and educated thus excluding himself from the possibility of ascertaining the truth, which is the noblest aim of the human intellect. THEREFORE, WE, associate at convenient seasons with learned men of all religions [and of no religion], thus deriving profit from their exquisite discourses and exalted aspirations."
— Akbar, 1582 (Emperor of Muhgal Empire/Inida)

"Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it."
— Voltaire (Philosophical Dictionary)

"By creating a new mythos - that is, a change in the way we perceive reality, the way we see ourselves, and the ways we behave - la mestiza creates a new consciousness. The work of mestiza consciousness is to break down the subject/object duality that keeps her prisoner and to show in the flesh and through the images in her work how duality is transcended. The answer to the problem between the white race and the colored, between males and females, lies in healing the split that originates in the very foundation of our lives, our culture, our languages, our thoughts. A massive uprooting of dualistic thinking in the individual and collective consciousness is the beginning of a long struggle, but one that could, in our best hopes, bring us to the end of rape, of violence, of war."
— Gloria Anzaldúa

"...what a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are)-..."
— Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
"
— Dr. Suess

"Wisdom is justified by all her children.
Luke 7:35"
— Various (Holy Bible)

"Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting."
— Stephen R. Prothero

"Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated."
— Kofi Annan

"To extend religious freedom to people of all religious traditions, even though you may well disagree with their beliefs and/or practices. Having tolerance toward another religion does not require you to endorse that faith group's beliefs; it simply indicates your respect for its right to exist and for its member to hold different beliefs without being oppressed."
— www.religioustolerance.org

"As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheel
Meeting people of different kinds,
Remember that being handicapped
Is only a state of mind"
— Stephen Cosgrove (Fanny)

"There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing."
— Charles de Lint (Sweet Forget-Me-Not)

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society... then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them... We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant."
— Karl Popper

"True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness."
— Allan Bloom

"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
"
— Dalai Lama

"Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment."
— Allan Bloom (The Closing of the American Mind)

"[Reverend James] Dobson says that the [Spongebob Squarepants] video would be watched by millions of elementary school students and includes a reference to being 'tolerant of differences.' The nerve! Who does Spongebob think he is? Jesus Christ? Tolerance will not be, uh, tolerated. Oh, and tolerance is quite possibly closesly connected to gay-ance."
— Celia Rivenbark (Belle Weather: Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Scattered Hissy Fits and Conniptions)

"As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love."
— Eric Wilson (A Shred of Truth)

"O mundo só vai prestar
Para nele se viver
No dia em que a gente ver
Um gato maltês casar
Com uma alegre andorinha
Saindo os dois a voar
O noivo e sua noivinha
Dom Gato e dona Andorinha"
— Estêvão da Escuna

"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."
— Henry A. Wallace

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"Humani nihil a se alineum putat."
(He deems nothing human alien to him.)"
— Terrence , De Quincey

""One race,
Many cultures,
One place."
"
— Geoffrey M. Gluckman (Deadly Exchange)

"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers "
— Kahlil Gibran

"Witchwars wouldn't start if we gave each other the tolerance we're so fond of preaching.... Personal "flaws" have a way of screwing up a perfectly good moral guideline....
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— Celeste Moondancer