Tolerance Quotes
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Business is not a spiritual matter, and my business decisions are not based on spiritual considerations. When I founded the Essence of Life, a project aimed at teaching tolerance and respectful dialogue, the person appointed to head it was Irit Atzmon, a former colonel in the army. Can anything be more down-to-earth than that?
Shari Arison -
Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
Sidney Hook
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Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.
Montel Williams -
Parents' tolerance of violence is so different to their tolerance of sexuality. If violence is involved in the sexuality it's somehow perceived as entertainment, but if love is involved with sexuality it's seen as pornographic and is not acceptable.
Ryan Gosling -
A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.
Adrian Anthony Gill -
The United States must keep what it has - diversity and tolerance - which make us what we are.
Georgie Anne Geyer -
I believe that the capital of the Republic of Albania is a suitable venue for discussing the dialogue among religions and civilizations, notably in the countries of South East Europe, because we are well familiar with this country's track record of religious tolerance.
Georgi Parvanov -
September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance and decency which underpin our way of life.
Tony Blair
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Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here.
Tony Blair -
Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.
Neal Ascherson -
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.
Boyd K. Packer -
Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
Stanley Kubrick -
There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.
Norah Vincent -
The heart of wisdom is tolerance.
Steven Erikson
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I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.
Michel Gondry -
Actually, tolerance and acceptance are different. To tolerate seems to mean that there is something negative to tolerate, doesn't it?
Bill Konigsberg -
I mean, if you accept something, you take it for what it is. Tolerance is different. Less.
Bill Konigsberg -
If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.
George Marsden -
Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
Hedy Lamarr -
India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
Will Durant
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The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.
Henry Louis Gates -
I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.
Steve Earle -
Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability: one is able to adjust, while the other, apparently, couldn't... The same analogy applies to fighting, and probably any other sport. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. We've seen this since the beginning of mixed martial arts.
Georges St-Pierre -
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Stephen Fry