Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have zero tolerance for racism, sexism, anti-Semitism in the L.A.P.D. That is a non- negotiable issue.

Cynthia McKinney

Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.

Andrea Corr

I have a high tolerance for discomfort.

Dalai Lama

Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas .

Amy Chua

Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.

Tony Blair

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.

Rush Limbaugh

We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance.

Stephen Fry

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Neil Gaiman

I have a really high tolerance level for twits. I really do.

Margaret Halsey

Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.

Montel Williams

Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.

Mason Cooley

Tolerance is a placid contempt.

Patti Page

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

Alexis de Tocqueville

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

Herbert Marcuse

While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies.

Henry Louis Gates

The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

George Eliot

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant ...

Frank Knox

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

George Bernard Shaw

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

George Bernard Shaw

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

Bertrand Russell

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

Jean Guitton

The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.”

Giacomo Leopardi

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Twyla Tharp

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

Wendell Willkie

Tolerance is the assumption of superiority

Narendra Modi

The basis of democracy is tolerance to criticism. If you can't face criticism, if you can't accept it, then you cannot guard democracy, you are not eligible for it.

James Goldsmith

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

There is also a reasonable tolerance: reason tolerates the reasonable. It is, however, almost tautological to call this 'tolerance' any longer, as it becomes a matter of course.

Emile M. Cioran

Tolerance cannot seduce the young.

Nelson Mandela

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.

Muriel Rukeyser

Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.