Tolerate The Intolerable Quotes

#1. What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Dominique De Menil

#2. 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

#3. I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

David Byrne

#4. Any loss is a gain.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. The main thing is media attention which is good publicity for the sport. As I'm the only women in this championship I would like to think that it encourages other young females to get into it. Also the media helps me in getting sponsorship.

Liz Halliday

#6. Sexual love, Peter, is a profoundly selfish emotion. And selfish emotions are not the ones that lead to happiness.

Ayn Rand

#7. Multiculturalism should not mean that we tolerate another culture's intolerance. If we do in fact support diversity, women's rights, and gay rights, then we cannot in good conscience give Islam a free pass on the grounds of multicultural sensitivity.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#8. The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

Bryant H. McGill

#9. Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy ... If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

Florence King

#10. Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.

Philip Jose Farmer

#11. A Painting without emotion is like a tree without roots.

Ray Wilkins

#12. We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries.

John Ortberg

#13. The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.

Mary McCarthy

#14. Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]

Christopher Paolini

#16. Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.

Kenneth Keating