Tolerance

WE ALL NEED TO LEARN A LESSON FROM CRAYONS. SOME ARE SHARP, SOME HAVE WEIRD NAMES, AND THEY ARE ALL KINDS OF COLORS. BUT IN THE END, THEY ALL HAVE TO LEARN TO LIVE IN THE SAME BOX.

 -Nick Meno

Intolerance is a form of ignorance which must be mastered before any form of enduring success can be attained. It makes enemies in business and in the professions.

Intolerance is the chief disintegrating force in the organized religions of the world, where it plays havoc with the greatest power for good by breaking up that power into small sects and denominations that spend as much effort opposing each other as they do in destroying the evils of the world.

Anything that clouds the mind of the individual and retards mental, moral, and spiritual development, also retards the progress of civilization. 

MINDS ARE LIKE PARACHUTES; THEY WORK BEST WHEN OPEN. 

-Lord Thomas Dewar 

NEVER EXPRESS YOURSELF MORE CLEARLY THAN YOU THINK. 

-Niels Bohr

There are two important factors that constitute the chief controlling forces of civilization. One is physical heredity and the other is social heredity.

The most important part of what we are is the result of social heredity, which is effected through our environment and our early training. 

Our conception of religion, politics, economics, philosophy, and other subjects of a similar nature, including war, is entirely the result of those dominating forces of our environment and training.

The Catholic is a Catholic because of their early training, and the Protestant is a Protestant for the same reason. But this is hardly stating the truth with sufficient emphasis, for it might be properly said that the Catholic is a Catholic and the Protestant is a Protestant because they cannot help it! With few exceptions, the religion of the adult is the result of their religious training during the years between four and fourteen, when their religion was forced on them by their parents or those who had control of their schooling.

A prominent clergyman once indicated how well he understood the principle of social heredity when he said, "Give me the control of the child until it is twelve years old and after that time you can teach it any religion you may please. But I will have planted my own religion so deeply in its mind that no power on earth could undo my work."

The outstanding and most prominent of a person's beliefs are those that were forced upon them or that they absorbed of their own volition, under highly emotionalized conditions, when his or her mind was receptive. Under such conditions the evangelist can plant the idea of religion more deeply and permanently during an hour's revival service than he could through years of training under ordinary conditions when the mind was not in an emotionalized state.   

The three great organized forces through which social heredity operates are the schools, the churches, and the press. Any ideal that has the active Cooperation of these three forces may, during the brief period of one generation, be forced upon the minds of the young so effectively that they cannot resist it.

POWER LASTS TEN YEARS; INFLUENCE NOT MORE THAN A HUNDRED.

 -Korean proverb 

WE ARE A NATION OF MANY NATIONALITIES, MANY RACES, MANY RELIGIONS-BOUND TOGETHER BY A SINGLE UNITY, THE UNITY OF FREEDOM AND EQUALITY. WHOEVER SEEKS TO SET ONE NATIONALITY AGAINST ANOTHER, SEEKS TO DEGRADE ALL NATIONALITIES. 

-Franklin Delano Roosevelt 

War cannot be stopped suddenly. It can be eliminated only by education, through the aid of the principle of subordination of individual interests to the broader interests of the human race as a whole.

PEACE CANNOT BE ACHIEVED THROUGH VIOLENCE, IT CAN ONLY BE ATTAINED THROUGH UNDERSTANDING. 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson 

War can be eliminated not by appeal to reason but by appeal to the emotional side of humanity. This appeal must be made by organizing and highly emotionalizing the people of the different nations of the world in support of a universal plan for peace, and this plan must be forced upon the minds of the oncoming generations with the same diligent care that we now force upon the minds of our young the ideal of our respective religions.

The majority of the people of the world want peace, wherein lies the possibility of its attainment! Those who do not want peace are the ones who profit by war. 

CHILDREN ARE POOR MEN'S RICHES. 

-English proverb  

Social heredity might be used to advantage in business-attract the children and you attract the parents! 

WE DO NOT EXIST FOR OURSELVES ... 

-Thomas Merton