Tolerate Quotes - Page 23

• A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world, ... Civilization cannot ignore the wrongs that have been done. America will not tolerate their being repeated. Justice has a new mission, a new calling against an old evil.

  John Ashcroft

  Civilization, America, Our World

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• The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Artist, Insincerity, Sane

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• The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the allegation that truth is a gift. To have to receive offends those who have determined to take.

  Louis Mackey

  Historical, Principles, Determined

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• Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  War, Party, Ruthless

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• The good thing about Pittsburgh, it's a good place to be raised... it doesn't tolerate assholes. You're either a good guy or you're a bad guy... When I'm in Los Angeles having these incredibly surreal moments where nobody's saying anything and everybody's talking incessantly, I always have that Pittsburgh voice in my head - shut up, smile, get the job, move on.

  Dennis Miller

  Jobs, Moving, Talking

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• I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism; that all civilizations are just different. No! Not always. Sometimes things are better! Rule of law is better than autocracy and theocracy; equality of the sexes, better; protection of minorities, better; free speech, better; free elections, better; free appliances with large purchases, better! Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Law, Civilization

  "Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.

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• Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Freedom, People, Dangerous

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.991, Library of America

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• To tolerate is to insult.

  Bruce Lee

  Tolerance, Insult

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.375, Tuttle Publishing

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• Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

  Jonathan Tropper

  I've Learned, Pity, Fart

  Jonathan Tropper (2007). “How to Talk to a Widower”, p.99, Bantam

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• In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name of our mission, in the name of that spirit which lives on in our teaching and in our vision of humanity and art, the spirit which can lead us Jews down the true and just path. But along the way, peoples will spill our blood, and that of others.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Teaching, Blood

  "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922". Book by Christoph Vitali, p. 58, 1991.

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• There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Names, Ideas, People

  Miguel de Unamuno (2015). “Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote”, p.16, Princeton University Press

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• A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences.

  Toni Morrison

  Ideas, Silence, Desire

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother.

  Marion Woodman

  Mother, Mean, Eating Disorder

  "Addiction to Perfection". Book by Marion Woodman, 1982.

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• He [Bogie] had tremendous character and a great sense of honor and would not tolerate lies, even if they asked him what he thought of a movie. We were once at a screening at somebody's house, I forget whose, and they ran a movie that he was in, that he never thought much of. Afterward, the producer asked what he thought of it, and Bogie said "I think it's a crock." And this producer was horrified! He was about to release the movie, and he said to Bogie "Why would you say that?!" Bogie shrugged and said "Then don't ask me." He never played the schmoozing game. He was not into that at all.

  Lauren Bacall

  Lying, Character, Thinking

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• We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Childhood, Social

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.117, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There is a big difference you see between privately letting someone know that you're displeased, whether they've done something they may not be aware of, and just rudeness - and you do not have to tolerate rudeness, by any means.

  Ysabella Brave

  Mean, Differences, Done

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"ysabellabravetalk #1", www.youtube.com. March 09, 2007.

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• I am speaking of something that is no longer happening - that is not currently going on. If someone is abusing you, or doing something illegal, or even something you refuse to tolerate, and it's still continuing, that is not an issue of forgiveness, that is an issue of making sure that stops - even if you have to get away from that situation - that's very important.

  Ysabella Brave

  Issues, Important, Illegal

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Forgiveness", www.youtube.com. July 07, 2007.

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• The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt for the affairs of state and its politics for the moral order that their self-respect would not let them tolerate.

  John Carroll

  Self, Order, Giving

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• Any strategy that involves crossing a valley accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.

  Neal Stephenson

  Distance, Loss, Valleys

  FaceBook post by Neal Stephenson from Oct 02, 2011

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• I'll tolerate you until I can replace you.

  Mike Tomlin

  I Can

  "Inside Tomlin's style: Humility, words matter for Steelers coach" by Jarrett Bell, USA Today, January 31, 2009.

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• We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

  Albert Einstein

  Differences, Diversity, Welcome

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• One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Men, Atheism, Stronger

  Gustave Le Bon, Alice Widener (1979). “Gustave Le Bon, the man and his works: a presentation with introduction, first translations into English, and edited extracts”, Liberty Fund

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• The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young.

  James Hollis

  Simple, World, Able

  James Hollis (2005). “Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up”, p.72, Penguin

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• It is a very rare church indeed that encourages its members to think for themselves in religious matters, or even tolerates this, and in most of them the clergy are quite ready to lay down the law in other fields too.

  Anne Roe

  Religious, Thinking, Law

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• No doubt that anarchist ideas are frightening to those in power. People in power can tolerate liberal ideas. They can tolerate ideas that call for reforms, but they cannot tolerate the idea that there will be no state, no central authority. So it is very important for them to ridicule the idea of anarchism to create this impression of anarchism as violent and chaotic. It is useful for them.

  Howard Zinn

  Ideas, People, Doubt

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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