#tolerant

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#approximations #certainly #closer #discoverable #generous

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. ↗

— Voltaire

#christian #christians #course #inspire #intolerant

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#corn #gene #herbicides #kill #makes

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#away #flies #horse #i #jack

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#cause #dangerous #evil #extreme #extremists

It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#children #duty #intolerant #long #our

We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

#again #al #al gore #believes #complexity

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#elite #european #i #like #living

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#always #cannot #intolerant #itself #limits

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#countries #democratic #europe #future #i