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

• 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

• 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

• It's not fair that our name can be used in any newspaper, any article connected with anything, and we can't really fight about it. It's like any newspaper that might take a picture of you, bad or good, and sometimes they're awful pictures, and they can use them without your approval and you can't do anything about it.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fighting

• I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.

  

  Eliot Paulina Sumner
  • Respect
  • Seeking
  • Approval

• I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Me
  • Respect

• A white woman with a camera in the Devadasi belt of Karnataka is not inconspicuous... it took time for these women to believe that I was not an official, carrying the threat of fine and imprisonment.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Women

• Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thinking
  • Speak
  • Greatness

• 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