Tolerable Quotes
Tolerable Quote of the day
Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.
Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.
There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.
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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.
There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action
Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.
Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.
A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.
Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.
An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.
We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.
On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.
The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.
School would be way more tolerable if everyone wasn’t so afraid to be who they really are. And if everyone else would let them.
A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable.
A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.
The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.
Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.
I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them.
It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.
To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.