Tolerate Quotes

• Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.

  Robert Kennedy

  Eye, Blow, Speaks Out

  Remarks before the Joint Defense Appeal of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith, Chicago, Illinois, June 21, 1961.

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• I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in the same room as me. I know I couldn’t tolerate myself.

  James Dean

  People, Devil, Littles

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• Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to exist.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Car, Our Society, Sofas

  "'Evil Can also Be Beautiful'". Interview with Matthias Matussek and Joachim Kronsbein, www.spiegel.de. March 27, 2006.

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• Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadenedthe senses against a barrage of uninterrupted nonsense.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Thinking, Years, Answers

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• The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, Infidelity, Quality

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• You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Running, Hurt

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• The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

  Albert Einstein

  Evil, World, Peril

  Einstein's tribute to Pablo Casals on March 30, 1953. "Conversations with Casals". Book by Josep Maria Corredor, p. 11, archive.org. 1957.

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• I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

  Reggie Jackson

  Success, Failure, Adversity

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• Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

  Bill Maher

  Tolerance, Intolerance, Theocracy

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• With acting it's your neck up there in the end. And if you think the director can't help you it's one thing. But if you feel they're reining you in when they need to be giving you some rope, or vice versa, then I just don't tolerate that.

  John Malkovich

  Thinking, Giving, Acting

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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• The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, True Friend, Grief

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• Being true to yourself means living in truth with each person in your life. It means refusing to say or do something that you don't believe is right. Living in truth with other people means that you refuse to stay in any situation where you are unhappy with the behavior of another person. You refuse to tolerate it. You refuse to compromise.

  Brian Tracy

  Believe, Mean, People

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 27, 2014

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• I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Freedom, Mistress, Being Free

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

  Karl Popper

  Names, Tolerance, Claims

  Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and its Enemies”, p.668, Routledge

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• We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

  William Ralph Inge

  Horse, Cynical, Shapes

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• The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "Computerworld". Book by Douglas Engelbart, p.42, June 22, 1992.

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• Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Clever, People, Intelligence

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• I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Freedom, Responsibility

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert A. Heinlein, (Ch. 6), 1966.

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• I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.

  Larry David

  People

  "An Extremely Awkward Encounter with Larry David". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. September 18, 2009.

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• We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Government, Oligarchy, Cartels

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• If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.

  William Greider

  Rights, Done, Benefits

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• Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

  Albert Camus

  Music, Dream, Appreciation

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• Boys are found everywhere - on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

  Alan Beck

  Girl, Mother, Running

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• I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Relationship, Respect, Money

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• Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

  William Allen White

  Tolerance, Weakness, Should

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