#tolerance

I've got kids that enjoy stealing. I've got kids that don't think about stealing one way or the other, and I've got kids that just tolerate stealing because they know they've got nothing else to do. But nobody--and I mean nobody--has ever been hungry for it like this boy. If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing. He...steals too much. ↗

— Scott Lynch

#locke-lamora #stealing #thieves #tolerance

I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#xenophobia #tolerance

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#tolerance #tolerance

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

#god #grace #judge #love #tolerance

Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot who are ignorant. ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#ignorance #intolerance #knowledge #primitive #unknow

If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission. ↗

— Flemming Rose

#freedom-of-religion #freedom-of-thought #religion #religious-tolerance #freedom

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#art form #black #form #literature #rigorous

If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, Chase, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated. ↗

— Glennon Melton

#inspirational #love #parenting #tolerance #inspirational

Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty--these are Christian values. ↗

— Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

#christianity #inspirational #tolerance #values #inspirational

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

#american way #bad #bugs #kill #like