Tolerance Quotes - Page 21

• The value of free expression is perceived to be at odds with goals that were considered 'more important,' like inclusiveness, diversity, nondiscrimination, and tolerance.

  Greg Lukianoff

  Odds, Expression, Diversity

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• Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill. But what happens when the lights go out?

  Kathleen Parker

  Money, Doom And Gloom, Light

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• For all the injustices in our past and our present, we have to believe that in the free exchange of ideas, justice will prevail over injustice, tolerance over intolerance and progress over reaction.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Past, Ideas

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• Seen from the moon we are all the same size.

  Multatuli

  Moon, Humanity, Size

  Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.61, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• While most of today's jobs do not require great intelligence, they do require greater frustration tolerance, personal discipline,organization, management, and interpersonal skills than were required two decades and more ago. These are precisely the skills that many of the young people who are staying in school today, as opposed to two decades ago, lack.

  James P. Comer

  Jobs, School, Frustration

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• To me, friendship means loving tolerance.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Mean

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• It's unfair of a circle to accuse the angle of being sharp.

  Multatuli

  Circles, Unfair, Angle

  Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.54, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Absolute tolerance is altogether impossible; the allegedly absolute tolerance turns into ferocious hatred of those who have stated clearly and most forcefully that there are unchangeable standards founded in the nature of man and the nature of things.

  Leo Strauss

  Men, Hatred, Impossible

  Leo Strauss (1995). “Liberalism Ancient and Modern”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

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• You want to be burning calories after you work out. The problem becomes for most people - its not pleasant, its painful. You have to have the pain tolerance to be able to deal with that, which a lot of people do not.

  Brett Hoebel

  Pain, People, Work Out

  "'Biggest Loser' trainer: Dumbbells and diets don't get you in shape". Interview with Jacque Wilson, www.cnn.com. April 4, 2013.

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• Tolerance is the assumption of superiority

  Wendell Willkie

  Assumption, Superiority

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• Show love, tolerance and respect to everyone.

  Lauren Faust

  Tolerance And Respect, Shows

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• Tolerance is a placid contempt.

  Mason Cooley

  Contempt, Placid

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• Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

  James Joyce

  Admire, Magnificent, Broadmindedness

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• Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

  Walter Besant

  Truth, Honesty, Acceptance

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• It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.

  Norm MacDonald

  Order

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• For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force; an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Powerful, Usa

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 169, 1991.

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• What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Men, Sportsmanship

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.163, Vintage

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• The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.

  Ronald Reagan

  Real, Names, Claims

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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• Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

  Jean Paul

  Respect, Responsibility, Roots

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• In the course of the world, a man must very often put on an easy, frank countenance, upon very disagreeable occasions; he must seem pleased, when he is very much otherwise; he must be able to accost and receive with smiles, those whom he would much rather meet with swords.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Patience, Men, World

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.298, OUP Oxford

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• Rip Van Winkle would be the ideal stock market investor: Rip could invest in the market before his nap and when he woke up 20 years later, he'd be happy. He would have been asleep through all the ups and downs in between. But few investors resemble Mr. Van Winkle. The more often an investor counts his money - or looks at the value of his mutual funds in the newspaper - the lower his risk tolerance.

  Richard Thaler

  Rip, Naps, Years

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• Tolerance is often championed by people who nothing to stand for.

  Woodrow M. Kroll

  People

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• ... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, "Be tolerant--even of evil." Logically the next step would be to say to our commonwealth's criminals, "I disagree that it's all right to rob and murder, but naturally I respect your opinion." Tolerance is only complacence when it makes no distinction between right and wrong.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Tombstone, Evil, Earth

  Sarah-Patton Boyle, Jennifer Lynn Ritterhouse (1962). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition”, p.193, University of Virginia Press

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• ... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Attitude, Color, White

  Sarah Patton Boyle (2016). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition”, p.102, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• ... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Struggle, Acceptance, Blind Spots

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