Emil Cioran Quotes

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

Emil Cioran

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• The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Courage
  • Tolerance
  • Test

• Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Work
  • Together
  • Law

• Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Guy

• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Values

• Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Real
  • Diversity

• Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Friends

• I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Husband

• Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Children
  • Culture

• 'The ruckus' is different experiences you go through throughout your life which builds your ruckus points up - your tolerance. You've got to have a high tolerance for dealing with stuff all the time.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Society
  • Tolerance

• People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it.

  

  Carl Olson
  • People
  • American
  • Bad

• Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

  

  Walter Koenig
  • Freedom
  • Religious
  • Practice

• America needs to be a place where all of us can feel a part of the American dream. But it will not happen by dividing us into racial groups. It will not happen by trying to turn the poor against the rich. It will not happen by asking Americans to accept what is immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Trying
  • American
  • America

• Fanaticism and extremism cannot grow on an earth whose soil is embedded in the spirit of tolerance, moderation, and balance. Good governance can eliminate injustice, destitution and poverty.' Remarks at a Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Summit 5 December 2005.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Good
  • Earth
  • Balance

• Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • Words
  • Religious

• We wish to recall here the spirit of tolerance shown by Our Lord Jesus Christ when He gave forgiveness to all including those that crucified Him.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Wish
  • Jesus
  • Forgiveness

• White was the most fashionable color among the nobility and the rich. Because, of course, white is so easily dirtied, and only the wealthy would do little enough that it could not be spoiled.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Color

• 'Above all there is our fixed joint determination to build a strong and united Fiji, rich in diversity and pampered with tolerance, goodwill and understanding.' (Attributed to Mara by his successor as President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, 10 October 2005).

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Strong
  • Understanding
  • Diversity

• In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin and guide of its contours and gradients and of all the lives - the plants and small creatures, and the culture - that evolved here. That was always here to be seen, of course, and the recognition has forced itself, in one form or other, upon people in every part of the world who have been directly involved with the growing of living things. The gardener who ignores it is soon left with no garden.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Real
  • Thoughts

• Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Drug

• In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better.

  

  Jeffrey Sachs
  • Up
  • Financial

• Definitely, I got a reputation growing up playing on the guys' hockey teams. The guys knew how tough I was because I played with them. I got quite a good reputation for beating up boys going up through school.

  

  Kelita Zupancic
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

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

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Tolerance