Tolerate Quotes - Page 28

• The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate nothing really independent of itself.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Independent, Community, Capitalist

  "Utopia of Usurers". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, pp. 33-34, 1917.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, Giving, Ornaments

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.144, Transaction Publishers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs.

  Janet Malcolm

  Ashes, Analysis, Mouths

  11 Copy quote

• Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Attitude, Mean, Tolerance

  6 Copy quote

• We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.

  Francois Fenelon

  Religion, May, Wells

  7 Copy quote

• If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is concerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate lukewarmness,it is the matter of sending the gospel to a dying world.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, White, Religion

  24 Copy quote

• I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Becoming, Accepting

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Life, Wisdom, Stars

  "Socialism in One Galaxy?" by Nicole Colson, socialistworker.org. September 15, 2016.

  92 Copy quote

  Show source

• Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. . . . If the next centennial does not find us a great nation . . . it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.

  James A. Garfield

  Ignorance, Character, Intelligent

  127 Copy quote

• If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.

  Bill Hicks

  Friday, Monday, Stupid

  147 Copy quote

• The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”“The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.”“In 20 or 30 years, you’ll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.”“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment they can tolerate.”“The key thing about all the world’s big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don’t get collectively smarter, we’re doomed.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Writing, Keys, Hands

  16 Copy quote

• The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Errors, Order

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.233, Harvard University Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead; they doubt it enough to notice the errors and faults so they can step forward and create the new replacement theory. If you believe too much you'll never notice the flaws; if you doubt too much you won't get started. It requires a lovely balance.

  Richard Hamming

  Believe, Science, Greatness

  "'You and Your Research' - 1986 Speech by Dr. Richard W. Hamming". www.valueinvestingworld.com. September 21, 2009.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.

  William James

  Happiness, Respect, Hands

  4 Copy quote

• No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything.

  Ashley Judd

  Pressure

  4 Copy quote

• There are credentials for admission to our democratic society [...]. You have to be educated in order to be a participant in our conversation So we are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable. We are not so inclusivist as to tolerate intolerance such as yours.

  Richard Rorty

  Religious, Children, Silly

  47 Copy quote

• We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act.

  David Suzuki

  Science, Jail, Effort

  4 Copy quote

• The core of a soldier is moral discipline. It is intertwined with the discipline of physical and mental achievement. It motivates doing on your own what is right without prodding. It is an inner critic that refuses to tolerate less than your best. Total discipline overcomes adversity and physical stamina draws on an inner strength that says "drive on".

  William G. Bainbridge

  Adversity, Army, Discipline

  19 Copy quote

• The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we seek to condemn and punish, have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that power has ever paid to reason.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Responsibility, Civilization, Hands

  Opening statement for the prosecution before International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, 21 Nov. 1945

  36 Copy quote

  Show source