L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

Tolerance is the one essential ingredient ... You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.

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.

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.

We don't have to have the same truths or personal belief systems to love one another and get along.

In Texas, you just learn just be nice to people and respect them, and respect where they're coming from. And understand people have different backgrounds and opinions, and there's nothing you could do about it. And that's what I've realized to shape, I guess, who I am.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

Tolerance is our safest refuge and our fortress against the handicaps that arise from schism, factions, and the difficulties inherent in reaching mutual agreement

It's not just about me. It's about all of us, accepting one another. We're all different... That's a good thing.

Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guarded by tradition.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

There are still places in America that we need to nurture, to allow them to understand that there are other ways of living, and it's not wrong, just because it's not your way of living.

It gets to be a problem when I decide one position should be the law for everybody. In public life, we [people] have to find a way to live together even though we disagree - and some things we will never agree on. But we've got to leave this I'm-going-to-kill-you-because-you-don't-believe-what-I-believe attitude behind.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.

Love your fellow, and not just those who agree with you.

Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?