Norah Vincent Quotes

There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.

Norah Vincent

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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

• You should seek approval from yourself.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Yourself
  • Seek
  • Approval

• 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

• 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

• 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

• India is still considered a preferred destination for many multinationals to manufacture cost-competitive high-technology products for domestic consumption as well as for global demand.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • High
  • Technology
  • Demand

• 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

• Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Everyone
  • Likes
  • Approval

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

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • Words
  • Religious

• '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

• 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.

  

  Aga Khan IV
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Justice

• 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.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Women
  • Growing
  • Religious

• He yawned. He had finished the day and he had also finished with his youth. Various well-bred moralities had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, common sense stoicism - all the aids whereby a man may savour, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Life
  • May
  • Failure

• The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • World
  • Culture
  • Freedom

• You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • Home
  • Game
  • Tolerance

• Genghis Khan decreed religious tolerance for all of his conquered peoples. So I think he definitely would approve of our constitutional protections of freedom of religion. I think he would also approve of the way the U.S. has been able to attract talented people from all over the world.

  

  Amy Chua
  • People
  • World
  • Freedom

• 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.

  

  Charlie Dent
  • Remember
  • Future
  • Freedom

• Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious - but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance. Women made up nearly half my class at university, and my senior academic adviser there was a woman. In Alexandria, my friends were Christians and Muslims.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • Up
  • Women
  • Friends

• For people of different faiths to coexist, it's going to take maturity, wisdom, and patience. All of which come, eventually, with tolerance. And it's a process of time.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this," you may ask? Because it'll be fun.

  

  Rick Mercer
  • Fun
  • Change
  • Demand

• When you lose things like football, which is the game I love - and this is the most important thing in my life - it really puts everything in perspective.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • Life
  • Important
  • Game

• Anwar is as bent as a three-euro note: just bright enough to think he’s smarter than everyone around him, just stupid enough not to realize that they’ve got his number. He’s a walking poster-boy for the Dunning-Kruger Effect: If he says he’s going straight, it probably means one of his idiot friends told him shoplifting is legal.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Friends
  • Boy
  • Stupid

• Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind -- is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Real

• There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.

  

  Norah Vincent
  • Tolerance
  • Demand
  • Approval