Carl Joachim Friedrich Quotes
Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.
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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.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right?
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
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I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
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The fabric of our Constitution and our civilisational culture is based on tolerance.
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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.
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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.
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The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity – these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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I have become convinced that the most serious and unaddressed worldwide challenge is the deprivation and abuse of women and girls, largely caused by a false interpretation of carefully selected religious texts and a growing tolerance of violence and warfare.
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We must have zero tolerance for sexual harassment, even if the perpetrator is somebody we like and admire.
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Our schools must be places where all are respected and the values of tolerance and peacemaking are taught and nurtured.
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We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.
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I lost my tolerance for a lot of things I probably should have tolerated.
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I have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to bullies.
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You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.
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Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
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I always loved singing, but I thought it was like drawing - just something you do in your own little corner to calm yourself down. But when my friend, the French songwriter Etienne Daho, listened to my songs, he was so moved that told me that I had to do a demo, share them with the world.
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My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.
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Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.
