"Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young."

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"Everyone has a right to love the land that gave them the things they need to live. It gives them beauty to look at, and food to eat, and neighbors to bicker with and then eventually to marry. But I think... that your own devotion to your familiar homeland should inspire you to allow other people to embrace their homelands as beautiful too."

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"If your religion requires, as an article of faith, to hate people of other religions and faiths, you and your ism are screwed up, mate."

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"Ever since the Enlightenment era in the 17th and 18th Centuries - which, among other things, gave birth to the U.S. Constitution and the de facto motto E Pluribus Unum (out of the many, one) - interfaith tolerance has been sown into the fabric of Western society. The rules of one religion are not made into law for all citizens because of a simple social agreement. For you to believe what you want, you must allow me to do the same, even if we disagree."

Gudjon Bergmann, Icelandic Author

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"Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures."

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"Tolerance is not infinite patience, but slain patience; patience that has lost its hope and love and has thrown in the towel."

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"The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything."

"Tolerance is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."

"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic."

"Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you."

"In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody."

"If your religion requires, as an article of faith, to hate people of other religions and faiths, you and your ism are screwed up, mate."

"Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures."

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"Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself."