FAMOUS QUOTES AND SAYINGS

"Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace. Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future."

The weak can never forgive; forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Tolerance must be taught, nurtured and defended because societies are ever more diverse but intolerance is growing in many places. This calls for tolerance is a means of constructing peace.

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.

Only big hearts know how to be tolerant and forgive.

I wholly disagree with what you say and will contend to the death for your right to say it.

We have enough religion to hate and persecute, but not enough to love and support.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just

Arabs were the first to show the world how to avoid any contradictions between freedom of thought and religious principles They endeavored to teach the world tolerance, which is the most invaluable human quality. This is why Muslim ethics in the early Muslim lands were far superior to those of all nations.

"If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.

Tolerance is a new idea, one that we need now more than ever. It leads us to respect cultural diversity, ways of life and expressions of our own humanity. It is a necessary condition for peace and progress for all people in a diversified and ever-more connected world.

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

And what kind of man am I? One of those who would gladly be refuted if anything I say is not true, and would gladly refute another who says what is not true, but would be no less happy to be refuted myself than to refute, for I consider that a greater benefit, inasmuch as it is a greater boon to be delivered from the worst of evils oneself than to deliver another

Be tolerate and do not fight evil in kind; those endowed with inner strength and spiritually strong are tolerant and forgiving.

My determination to address the concept of tolerance was not a creative writing-oriented decision. Rather, it was based on my personal decision to reconcile the deep-rooted traditions with modernity, hatred with love, and bring into harmony the two extremes towards the realization of development, openness, success and peace. I hope it is a courageous decision or at least right.

Tolerance is the best antidote to extremism and the efficacious remedy for this epidemic, which has wreaked havoc far and wide, giving rise to many and diverse problems. The philosophy of tolerance must be adopted in order for us to heal.

In order to realize love and peace, in addition to savor the safety of coexistence, we must first attain the comprehensive tolerance that begets cooperation, giving, and peace.

Conflict, in all its kinds, is a bad teacher because it blurs the minds. Tolerance, on the other hand, should be the teacher from whom we learn and derive lessons because it inspires the minds. The difficulties, hindrances, and losses I have encountered throughout my life have taught me that tolerance is a vital and civilized solution.

The shortest way to God is your other human being.

Without tolerance, there can be no future. Tolerance means giving our countries and ourselves the opportunity to make a fresh start.

The absence of tolerance in the world incurs imbalance in the social and global peace and its extreme version incurs civil and national religious wars that have been one of the fiercest wars in human history because intolerance is usually associated with the elimination of the other.