#tolerate

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#australians #being #carried #grounds #i

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#frankly #i #join #members #one thing

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#chaos #come #council #desperate #ever

Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits. ↗

— Michael Crapo

#budget #build #cannot #deficits #growing

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

#claims #defending #dull #evils #exposing

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#country #fortunes #god #hands #his

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. ↗

— John Calvin

#even #freedom #god #ignorance #inadvertently

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#domain #ear #flee #forced #into

If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of the earth, and had done it in Korea, where we could have accomplished it militarily, if necessary, I would put a stop to it and would have put a stop to it there. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#another #beginning #clear #could #done

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. ↗

— James Thurber

#libel #limitations #only #rules #taste