Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph CampbellTag: religion dogma tolerance mythology zealotry
For me, religion is like a rhinoceros: I don't have one, and I'd really prefer not to be trampled by yours.
Silas SparkhammerMoral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure.
H.L. MenckenTag: certainty social-commentary tolerance skepticism
The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting.
Teresa de la ParraTag: acceptance difference people tolerance
Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.
Tony BlairTag: liberalism tolerance britain conformism
In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total eradication is an impossibility. The secret of attaining peace in life is tolerance of disturbance of the peace. (p. 99)
Wahiduddin KhanBut that's always a certain way to recognise a facist: when he's more powerful he kills everything that's different from him, he uses only brute force while law breaks like glass under his boots. And then, when he loses and when he's weak, he invokes the law and tolerance of differences. All of a sudden, he knows by heart every single human rights convention he broke so many times before.
Andrej NikolaidisTag: equality law intolerance tolerance human-rights facism
To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, 'Look at my two noble friends -- they are dumb, but they are loyal.' I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.
Beryl MarkhamTag: man animals companionship tolerance
In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.
Paulo CoelhoTolerance cannot seduce the young.
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