Top 56 Tolerates Quotes
#1. We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.
Yasmin Mogahed
#2. The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
Jean Cocteau
#3. AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
Jerry Falwell
#4. Wisdom tolerates blustered opinions, the better to dismiss them later with discovery.
John Pipkin
#5. A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory
John Steinbeck
#6. Who tolerates, which is intolerable; who is kind, which is cruel; who understands, which is beyond comprehension ...
Edward Albee
#7. Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other.
Rudy Giuliani
#8. Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.
Geoffrey Canada
#9. The subsidiary reason is that the Party member, like the proletarian, tolerates present-day conditions partly because he has no standards of comparison. He must be cut off from the past, just as he must be cut off from foreign countries.
George Orwell
#10. I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she chafes under a government that tolerates it.
Susan B. Anthony
#11. Listen to the Reverend Jerry Falwell, founder of Liberty University: 'AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.'121
Richard Dawkins
#12. The person who tolerates 'exactly' (with understanding) hands over his 'case' to nature. There is no need to punish anyone. Nature itself will punish him.
Dada Bhagwan
#13. God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
John Calvin
#14. American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
Jack Kemp
#15. Its funny how human beings tend to think that they're the masters of the earth never realizing that the earth, for a time, simply tolerates its tenants and then, when the mood strikes, it shifts its continents around.
Frederick Lenz
#16. A country that tolerates evil means- evil manners, standards of ethics-for a generation, will be so poisoned that it never will have any good end.
Sinclair Lewis
#17. Communities have a responsibility to assist the family in promoting wholesome entertainment. What a community tolerates will become tomorrow's standard for today's youth.
Ezra Taft Benson
#18. What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.
John Wesley
#21. And while the Council generally tolerates murder, it finds murder for hire distasteful.
Molly Harper
#22. The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth.
Walter Lippmann
#23. How it is that Bengal with all its knowledge, intelligence, sacrifice, and emotion tolerates this slaughter?
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.
Francois Fenelon
#25. Ethically, what one generation tolerates the next may treat as normal.
Mal Fletcher
#26. He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions ... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the
H.G.Wells
#27. A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost
#28. Personally speaking, when everything is boiled down to the marrow, I think the reason Reddit tolerates the creepy forums has to do with money more than anything else.
John Scalzi
#29. You're forgetting about God.
He doesn't interest me. God tolerates the intolerable, he is irresponsible and inconsistent. He is not a gentleman.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#30. I am so glad my wife tolerates me. And we have three wonderful sons.
Donald Sutherland
#31. The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.
Jean De La Bruyere
#32. Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.
Hinton Rowan Helper
#33. Every nation has its war party ... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.
Robert M. La Follette
#34. It is a very rare church indeed that encourages its members to think for themselves in religious matters, or even tolerates this, and in most of them the clergy are quite ready to lay down the law in other fields too.
Anne Roe
#35. It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can
it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
Samuel Butler
#36. Some suggested over the weekend that it is wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. They were talking about Miami.
Katie Couric
#37. The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
John Marshall
#38. A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Doug Larson
#39. Society tolerates the practice of the Christian faith in private devotions and in church services, but it increasingly deprecates public witness.
John C. Lennox
#40. A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them.
K.E. Garvey
#41. Real unity tolerates dissent and rejoices in variety of outlook and tradition, recognizes that it is man's destiny to unite and not divide, and understands that creating proletariats and scapegoats and second-class citizens is a mean and contemptible activity.
Northrop Frye
#42. If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it becomes intolerable.
Gaetano Mosca
#43. Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason ...
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#44. The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#45. One must concede to others what one tolerates in oneself.
Muriel Barbery
#46. Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates.
Jerry Vlasak
#47. In a universe of love there can be no heaven which tolerates a chamber of horrors.
John Robinson
#48. I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.
Ron Reagan
#49. If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.
Stephen Kinzer
#50. For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness the 9/11 'truthers' who, lacking any evidence whatsoever, claim that 9/11 was a Bush administration plot.
Michael Hayden
#51. There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.
Agnes Repplier
#52. Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.
Henry Hyde
#53. There is no protection against the kinds of influences that are loose in a society that tolerates pornography.
Ted Bundy
#54. Just as people will admit to being bad with math more than they will admit illiteracy, business tolerates interpersonal incompetence where it would never allow financial malfeasance.
Rodd Wagner
#55. A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates,
Kurt Tucholsky
#56. Ask a glass of water why it pities
the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash.
Terrance Hayes