All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
Wislawa Szymborska

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.
Phyllis Schlafly

But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.
John Bates Clark

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.
Arlo Guthrie

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.
William Greider

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
Peter Drucker

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
Jane Rule

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

I am proud to be Chinese, and I do not tolerate any traitor.
Alex Chiu

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.
James E. Rogers

I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.
Helen Thomas

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.
Mitt Romney

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you?
Shannon Hoon

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.
Christine Baranski

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
Charles de Gaulle

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
Nina Simone

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
Camille Claudel