As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance but also to cherish moral and spiritual qualities such as modesty, humility, compassion, and, most important, to attain a certain degree of emotional equilibrium.
U ThantEvery human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
U ThantIn modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
U ThantUnderstanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.
U ThantAs we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.
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