Dustin Lance Black Quotes

A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.

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

Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships.

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

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

There are certain things in politics you cannot stop. You just can’t stop. You just have to grin and bear it.

I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.

Those who know my stance on Israeli democracy also know that there is nothing more foreign to me than the rejection of a position different to my own.

Silence is accepting the unacceptable when it comes from anybody.

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.

I tell people all the time, preached a couple Sundays about it. I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out.

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

There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.

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.

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

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.

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

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

In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

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

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.