Absolutes Quote by Leo Strauss

If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place,…

— Gaetano Mosca

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

— Sidney Hook

“Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil … a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Tolerance is the worst roar of all, including tolerance for homosexuals, feminists, and religions that don't follow Christ.

— Josh McDowell

The only tolerance in the world, the only tolerance that earns the name, is that toward intolerance.

— Louis Paul

Those who constantly qualify everything and have no opinions of their own are ultimately just as incapable of tolerance.

— Wolfgang Schauble

Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon…

— Hutton Gibson

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means…

— E. M. Forster

Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another’s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on…

— Dallin H. Oaks

Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or…

— Paulo Freire

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

— George D. Prentice

There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance... Tolerance applies only…

— Fulton J. Sheen