Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Edith Wharton

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

Agnes Repplier

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

Bill McKibben

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

Bill Maher

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

When we get them, we immediately go out there and abate it. We have no tolerance for that.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

Alexis de Tocqueville

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

Brandon Lee

If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.

We have zero tolerance for racism, sexism, anti-Semitism in the L.A.P.D. That is a non- negotiable issue.

Aristotle

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

Barack Obama

Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

Andrea Corr

I have a high tolerance for discomfort.

Bruce Lee

To tolerate is to insult.

We used to be pampered, now we are searched. The frustration tolerance has been decreased.

Cynthia McKinney

Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.

Amy Chua

I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.

Amy Chua

Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.

Dalai Lama

Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas .

Dalai Lama

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.

Meryl Streep

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

Bertrand Russell

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

John Money

neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power

Henry Spencer

A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flamming.

Jose Serrano

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

Narendra Modi

The basis of democracy is tolerance to criticism. If you can't face criticism, if you can't accept it, then you cannot guard democracy, you are not eligible for it.

Mahatma Gandhi

The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.

Mahatma Gandhi

Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.

Mahatma Gandhi

Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.

Emile Zola

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.

Emile M. Cioran

Tolerance cannot seduce the young.

Emile M. Cioran

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.