Anne Wilson Schaef Quotes

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

I want a world where everything is welcome, everything is valid, everything is acknowledged, embraced, and accepted. To me, that's a perfect world.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, — the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principal of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

If tolerance is the best we can do in this moment, then by all means let's be tolerant. But by stopping there, by merely tolerating each other, we miss so much.

I am tolerant. I want to understand other points of view.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

You have to respect everybody's desires and way of living.

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.

It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

Different people have different opinions, and it's okay to respect all of them.

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

We're all different. That's what makes us special. We have to love each other and get on with each other. It's not up to me to judge anybody.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

We have to believe that we can hold different points of view without labeling each other bad feminists.