"Human beings tolerate what they understand they have……" — Jane Rule
"Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate."
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21 Quotes by Jane Rule
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Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
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Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking…
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I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for…
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If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is…
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To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
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Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.
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The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability…
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If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would…
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I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with…
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Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
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Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
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Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some…
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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what…
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is…
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
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It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us',…
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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the…
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,…
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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the…
— James A. Baldwin
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable…
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