Tolerance Quotes - Page 20

Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

And for those of you who want to start any trouble, I have a zero tolerance policy. . . .

Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential.

... 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.

Tolerance is an essential value in the modern world, and we have daily reminders of how awful the alternatives to it are. And despite its paradoxical flavor, there are many good arguments - moral, prudential, and epistemic - in favor of tolerance, and none that I know of against it.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

The best defense for any group of people is what we do to defend other people.

It still boils down to one thing: The left cannot beat Fox News in the arena of cable news. The media, the left cannot beat Fox News. The only option they have is to destroy it. Because they can't outcompete it as is evidenced by ratings day in and day out since 1996, when Fox debuted. The standard operating procedure for the left is not to level the playing field but to close it. It's to deny participation on the playing field, not level it. No tolerance. No fairness.

If you're gay or religious you're always hearing this word tolerance. It's a pathetic word. It's actually just a politically correct word for the term intolerance.

Now [after election] where it goes into violence, I have a zero tolerance for riots.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency and tolerance are lost.

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when they’re not entirely certain they’re in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the God’s mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence.

Yet [Dalai Lama] has said very strongly that basic freedoms of thought and speech have to be respected in Tibet and they're not at the moment. Tolerance doesn't mean accepting what's unfair.

I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.

[On highly politicized Islamists:] In the name of freedom they demand the right to renounce freedom. In the language of tolerance they demand that intolerance be granted a dignified place at the table.

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

I can't stop terrorism; I can't cure cancer. But I can put some stories out there in their own quiet way that talk about tolerance.

We are all more connected than ever. That connectivity builds tolerance.

O! I burn with impatience for the moment of the dissolution of intolerance; it has injured me.

In religious matters it is now fashionable to define tolerance as the absence of criticism of any standard religion. All too often, this absence of criticism degenerates into a conspicuous absence of thought.

We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases.