Tolerable Quotes

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. 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. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein

Alone, Everything, Find

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau

Put, House, Planet

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Amusements

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
Plato

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin

Yourself, Others

I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.
April Winchell

Hope, Wish, Thursday

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Adam Smith

Peace, Justice, Else

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Peace, War, Rather

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.
Charles de Gaulle

Death, Humanity, Sacrifice

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.
Samuel Richardson

Love, May, Happen

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.
John James Audubon

Living, Knows, English

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.
Ernst Toller

Revolution, Become, Situation

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
Sebastian Junger

Battle, Makes, Soldiers

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
Pamela Hansford Johnson

War, Silent, Felt

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.
Eyvind Johnson

Men, Science, Others

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