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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers.
Tolerance is essential for peace and harmony in any community or country.
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The progress of any community or country depends largely on the conduct of the people who reside in it. Discontent, jealousies, prejudices, and intolerance among a few of the people can cause great damage to the whole community or country.
A community or a country is composed of various types of people, whose psychological social and temperamental attitudes and needs are not the same. In a great number of cases, there are fundamental differences even in race, language and religion among the people. This is the result of the economic and social necessities of the modern age, which have compelled people to leave their original homes and live among people of foreign descent.
These diversities in a community or country necessitate the maintenance of a tolerant attitude on the part of the people towards one another. They have to respect the cultural and social habits and beliefs of one another and refrain themselves from doing, or saying things which might offend the susceptibilities of some people. The racial and religious clashes that have occurred in various parts of the world indicate the damage that the expression of hatred and prejudice can cause in a country. When passions are aroused, men lose their reason and sense of proportion and indulge in the most barbaric acts. Innocent lives become the victims of insensate cruelty.
That tolerance is essential for peace and harmony in a country could be illustrated by reference to the people in United States of America. The people of this country are made up of a diversity of races and cultures. Yet, by tolerance, cooperation and goodwill among the people as a whole, it has become the richest and powerful country in the world. All this proves what could be achieved by the people of a community or a country who exercise tolerance among themselves.
What do religions have to say about Tolerance in general?
- Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
- Christianity: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
- Confucianism: Is there one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one’s whole life? Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others what you would not have them do unto you.
- Hinduism: This is the sum of duty. Do nothing unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.
- Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for others what he desires for himself.
- Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow men. That is the entire law; all the rest is commentary.
- Taoism: Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.
- Zoroastrianism: That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto others whatever is not good for itself.