Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-03-24 Mar 23, 2001Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.~ VoltaireWe are all full of weakness and errors, let us mutually pardon each other our follies. It is the first law of nature.~ Voltaire Mar 22, 2001Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh? We are a company of ignorant beings, feeling our way through mists and darkness, learning only by incessantly repeated blunders, obtaining a glimmering of truth by falling into every conceivable error, dimly discerning light enough for our daily needs, but hopelessly differing whenever we attempt to describe the ultimate origin or end of our paths; and yet, when one of us ventures to declare that we don't know the map of the universe as well as the map of our infintesimal parish, he is hooted, reviled, and perhaps told that he will be damned to all eternity for his faithlessness.~ Leslie Stephen Mar 21, 2001If we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.~ John F. KennedyTolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.~ Joshua LiebmanLet us forget such words, and all they mean, as Hatred, Bitterness and Rancor, Greed, Intolerance, Bigotry. Let us renew our faith and pledge to Man, his right to be Himself, and free.~ Edna St. Vincent Millay Mar 20, 2001The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.The last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.~ Viktor FranklPrejudice rarely survives experience.~ Eve Zibart Mar 19, 2001Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so long as (a) they know what they are doing, (b) they consent to it, and (c) no one -- at least no one other than the participants -- is harmed by it.~ Hugo Adam BedauHere the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.~ John Milton Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print