Tolerate Quotes - Page 6

• The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sports, Animal, Hunting

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.

  Kim Il-sung

  Fighting, Practice, Facts

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Dedication, Order

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• Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Determination, Realization

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• Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Son, Doe, Ants

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• Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst, we do all we can do destroy it.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Appreciation, Pride, Greatness

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• I hear the word 'tolerance'-tha t some people are trying to teach people to be tolerant of gays. I'm not satisfied with that word. I am gay, and I am not seeking to be 'tolerated'. One tolerates a toothache, rush-hour traffic, an annoying neighbor with a cluttered yard. I am not a negative to be tolerated.

  Chely Wright

  Gay, People, Tolerance

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• Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Thinking, Brave

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it. The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Spiritual, Law, Land

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• Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.

  Terence McKenna

  Touching, Would Be, Able

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• What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw - and WRITE.

  Ralph Steadman

  Passion, Writing, World

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• If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.

  Mark McCormack

  Ideas, People, Trust Me

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• I'm a vegetarian. I believe that we're all equal. I ain't got no right to kill. Say a fly comes in my house, I tolerate that little a**hole.

  Russell Brand

  Believe, House, Littles

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• We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

  Ed Markey

  Couple, Children, Simple

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• Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind eye to them, and pretend that the weapons are no longer a threat. We will not in any way tolerate the testing of nuclear weapons, or their manufacture, or their deployment.

  David Lange

  Mean, Eye, Deployment

  David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.

  William James

  Reality, Men, Hands

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.290, Harvard University Press

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• A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

  John Steinbeck

  Past, Greatness, People

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.318, Penguin

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• Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

  David Ogilvy

  People, Giving, Boss

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.70, Profile Books

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• The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some people suspended their search for absolute truth and began instead to ask how things worked, modern science was born. Curiously, it was by abandoning the search for absolute truth that science began to make progress, opening the material universe to human exploration.

  Heinz Pagels

  People, Simplicity, Progress

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• She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

  Colum McCann

  Pain, People, Endurance

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.290, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.

  Veronica Roth

  Long, Emptiness, Humans

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Collector's Edition”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Appreciation, Attitude, Tolerance

  "It will take more than tolerance to protect human rights" by Daniel Barenboim, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2016.

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• the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Mother, Sleep, Men

  Cecily Von Ziegesar (2003). “Gossip Girl”, p.5, A&C Black

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• I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hard Work, Choices, Want

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.455, St. Martin's Press

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• At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that long after we had managed to send men to the moon and areoplanes to Australasia, we would still have such trouble knowing how to tolerate ourselves, forgive our loved ones, and apologise for our tantrums?

  Alain de Botton

  Moon, Men, Light

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