Tolerated Quotes
135 Tolerated quotes by 127 unique authors
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When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage…
— Steve Martin
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Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated. I'm celebrated in Detroit.
— Kid Rock
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Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -…
— Virginia Satir
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All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these…
— Abdurrahman Wahid
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Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued." (From a speech read on video on…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of…
— Frederick Salomon Perls
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My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and…
— Edward Said
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The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance…
— Harvey Fierstein
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I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.
— Jean Cocteau
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The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.
— Anne Rice
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The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to…
— Noam Chomsky
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He issued orders to us: demigods who come to us for aid are no longer to be tolerated. We are to crush your little mortal…
— Rick Riordan
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They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here, finally, was the…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried…
— Francine Rivers
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Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,†he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are…
— Michael Lewis
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You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains.…
— Imre Kertész
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These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the…
— Zadie Smith
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You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is…
— Marquis de Sade
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