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.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

Agnes Repplier

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

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

Bill Maher

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

Bruce Lee

To tolerate is to insult.

Aristotle

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

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

Bill McKibben

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Andrea Corr

I have a high tolerance for discomfort.

Barack Obama

Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

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

Alexis de Tocqueville

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

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

Meryl Streep

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

There's a frustration tolerance with these things that has to be managed properly.

Greg Gutfeld

You also wonder if a restaurant placed an ad that read, "Only homeless need apply," would they get fined? Probably not. But if they said, "No homeless apply," they would be transient bigots. For as bureaucrats use language to punish the lawful, they use tolerance to coddle the troubled.

Henry Louis Gates

The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

George Eliot

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant ...

Frank Knox

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

Herbert Marcuse

While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

George Bernard Shaw

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

George Bernard Shaw

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

Eoin Colfer

Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.

Nelson Mandela

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.