Tolerance is an ugly word. Tolerance? Yes, to tolerate means you have
already humiliated the other person
you are already higher holier more understanding
the people who talk about tolerance are the most intolerant people
I never
tolerate. Either I accept or I simply forget all about the person why should I tolerate
he has the right to be himself i have the right to be myself there is no need for any tolerance
but don't you think that um a lot of people would misunderstand what you've said about
tolerance who haven't uh the benefit of sitting here and thinking it over and discussing it and
exploring the idea and there you see it if you like in print and they have been taught
all their lives in this country at least it seems to me in democracies that tolerance is a
good thing and that one should tolerate because otherwise the alternative is impact hostility
and possibly leading to violence no that is not the only alternative they are wrong
just listen to the sound of the world tolerance
there is hostility in it
already you have accepted that there is no possibility of friendship
there is no possibility of being together lovingly tolerance
simply means
somehow
live and let them live it is not a beautiful world it is certainly ugly
there is no need for tolerance if there is no hostility
it is simply to cover up hostility we don't tolerate anybody
because we are not hostile in the first
for place jesus says love your enemies but that means first you have to create enemies
otherwise how you are going to love enemies
there are people though as we know um there are people in the world who you've never met
that we've never met probably never will meet who just start out life pursuing completely different
goals with a totally different attitude a different set of values from ourselves
and who's to say which is the better set of values and when you say you know live and
let live that also does it not mean tolerance and therefore in order for these two ideas to live and
let live with each other you have to adopt this ugly word tolerance and tolerate each other no
i accept their right
to be themselves i'm not tolerating
i will criticize them if i feel it is wrong
it is out of compassion and love that i will criticize them
because i am concerned about them
tolerance simply means go to hell we don't bother
there are different set of values different ideologies and i love the freedom
for myself and for them they may be against me that does not make any difference
i will fight for their freedom too just the way i will fight for my freedom but i will not tolerate
i will criticize them either someday they have to accept me or someday i have to accept them
tolerance means we have decided that now there is no possibility of any bridge
you