Toleration Quotes

“My hate is general, I detest all men;
Some because they are wicked and do evil,
Others because they tolerate the wicked,
Refusing them the active vigorous scorn
Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.”
― Moliere, The Misanthrope

“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”
― Helen Keller

“What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

“What the State can usefully do is to make itself a central depository, and active circulator and diffuser, of the experience resulting from many trials. Its business is to enable each experimentalist to benefit by the experiments of others, instead of tolerating no experiments but its own.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“Ich wünsche mir, dass sich unsere Gesellschaft tolerant, wertbewusst und vor allen Dingen in Liebe zur Freiheit entwickelt und nicht vergisst, dass die Freiheit der Erwachsenen Verantwortung heißt.”
― Joachim Gauck, Freiheit. Ein Plädoyer

“Instead of picking on each other's mistake, let us be human across intellect and faith.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Girl Over God: The Novel

“Sisters and brothers of planet earth, we no longer have the childish luxury to talk about toleration, for it's time to act upon assimilation, it's time for universal acceptance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

“Together we are life, separate we are dust.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“Diversity is No Gimmick (The Sonnet)

Diversity is no gimmick,
Diversity is no belief.
Diversity is life itself,
Diversity is uplift.
Diversity is sanity,
Diversity is joy.
Diversity is monsoon,
After a drought most dry.
There ain't no humanity,
If there is no diversity.
We ain't no human,
If inside we have no amity.
It ain't enough to talk of toleration!
Each of us is to be the vessel of unification.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“It ain't enough to talk of toleration! Each of us is to be the vessel of unification.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“Human and hate cannot coexist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“One who tolerates little, has to tolerate the most.”
― Raheel Farooq

“It's okay if our beliefs differ -
so long as the result is love,
it's okay if the routes differ.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“All labels are second labels,
Our native label is human.
All tradition is second tradition,
Earth's native tradition is compassion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“If toleration fails, sure, Tit for Tat passes.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Argumentation without empathy is just hate speech.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Militant atheism is just another intolerance - if you don't get this, you are just as retarded as the religious fundamentalists. Religious fundamentalism is just another sacrilege - if you don't get this, you are just as infidel as militant atheists.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Plenty Room For All (The Sonnet)

Turban, Hijab, Habit or Tuxedo,
Wear whatever feels like second skin.
No need to justify to judgmental apes,
Life's too short to be wasted on fiends.

Let them just fade away,
as vestigials of evolution.
Savagery requires treatment,
not serious consideration.

To be treated as a human being,
One must behave as human being.
Faith, intellect, both are poison,
If the heart remains ever so mean.

There's plenty room for all thoughts,
No matter the measures of books 'n brain.
Fiction, reason, all are welcome,
On my earth where but love reigns.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Turban, Hijab, Habit or Tuxedo,
Wear whatever feels like second skin.
No need to justify to judgmental apes,
Life's too short to be wasted on fiends.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“God is your motivation! Okay.
Science is your motivation! Okay.
What do you do with that,
how do you lift the world!
What's your gift to the life most lay!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Tolerance, tolerance, tolerance!
Nay - acceptance, acceptance, acceptance!
Accept people for who they are,
to change them never you desire!
To see love, you gotta be love incarnate.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Men can't all think alike, and the trouble with the Southern people always has been that they won't tolerate any difference of opinion. If God Almighty had intended all men to think just alike, He might just as well have made but one man....My opinion is that the only true solution for Southern troubles is for the people to accept cordially and in good faith all the results of the war, including the reconstruction measures, the acts of Congress, negro suffrage, etc., and live up to them like men. If they would do this, and encourage Northern immigration, and treat all men fairly, whites and blacks, the troubles would soon be over, and in less than five years, the South would be in the enjoyment of greater prosperity than ever. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Interview with correspondent from the Indianapolis Journal, September 24, 1874.”
― Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

“More than being the spark of reason,
Be the reason for someone's spark.
Better than bearing the light of faith,
Instill faith in someone's light.

Intellect don't impress me much,
Devoutness of doctrine repulses me.
Have you ever made a stranger smile,
Ever left your seat to the elderly!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“9/11 wasn't religion's fault, any more than Hiroshima was science's fault.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Tolerance, tolerance, tolerance, that's the watchword of civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Advaita is ahimsa, nonduality is nonviolence. Acceptance is sapiens, toleration is civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Toleration is civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“First sign of divinity is a tolerant heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“No belief is more holy than tolerance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“But such is the nature of the concept of tolerance. It evolves. Every generation puts its own limitations on it, and the clashes that define a given generation seem in many respects to be over the question of who and what that generation tolerates.”
― Russel Shorto