tolerance Quotes

Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism.

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

Trawl through the world of blogs and tweets, and you will find readers complaining when they stumble upon a word they don't recognise, an attitude that doesn't accord with their own, a passage of thought they find hard work, a joke they don't get or of which they don't approve.

To assert that antisemitism is unlike other racisms is not to claim a privilege for it. Hating a Jew is no worse than hating anyone else.

Making America great again, as if to keep the world out. The world and all its fresh ideas and everything that's new and exhilarating and the wind of change that should blow through the world - block it out, wall ourselves up. That for me goes with a small vocabulary. A narrow, confining vocabulary.

It isn't only in the name of free speech that the views of an itchy polemicist should be tolerated - and I say itchy polemicist promoting thought, not itchy ideologue promoting violence - but because provocation is indispensable to the workings of a sound, creative culture.

The more educated we are, the less we are prepared to tolerate views contrary to our own.