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The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.

Randy K. Milholland

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

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Sigmund Freud

Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?

Vladimir Nabokov

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Doris Lessing

We do not tolerate this kind of behavior by anyone at any level in any Halliburton company.

Cathy Mann

This is a wake up call to those who think they can get away with this type of activity. We are not going to tolerate it in our community.

Randy Walters

The people of West Virginia have made it clear that they will no longer tolerate a government that is out of step with the economy of this state.

Joe Manchin

We do not tolerate this kind of behavior by anyone at any level.

Melissa Norcross

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

James Agate

We will not tolerate that type of error. We take it very seriously.

Rachael Sunbarger

We would not allow a private insurance company to not pay claims and we must not tolerate Medicaid doing the same. As governor, I will ensure Medicaid pays its bills and fix this problem once and for all.

Chandler Woodcock

We're going to experiment with different ad formats ... find out what they'll tolerate.

Richard Bennett

By and large, in our treatment provider system, that is not the type of behavior they tolerate.

Kathryn Jett

Brand relationships have become a lot more personal. People consider brands almost like personal friends. They have a fairly personal relationship with the brands they buy on a regular basis. If one of your friends upsets you, or does something you are not happy about, you might tolerate it for a little while. But there is sort of an elastic limit to that.

Ian Bellhouse

The government will not tolerate any delay in reporting, any underreporting or cover-up of SARS figures. This is going to be a rule.

Gao Qiang

The Security Council has today said that in the 21st century, the world will not tolerate genocide or crimes against humanity.

Nicola Reindorp

I was listening to what my knee said. I knew what exercises to do, what I could tolerate and when to regress.

Dr. Nick Dinubile

We are monopolists in the field of politics. We can't stand any competition. We can tolerate no rivals. The working class, to make the revolution can do it only through one party and one program. This is the lesson of the Russian Revolution. That is the lesson of all history since the October Revolution.

James P. Cannon

If you're riding for more than an hour at a time, you need some kind of nutrition to keep you going. The food should be high in carbohydrates and low in fat. Energy gels and bars are good choices, but not all cyclists can tolerate these during their ride.

Catherine Kruppa

By being your dog's advocate, you also are being your child's. There are many dogs that tolerate manhandling well for long periods of time. There are very few dogs that enjoy it.

Colleen Pelar

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

Marcel Achard

Any loss of life is regrettable, but we will simply not tolerate acts of violence against our multinational forces or innocent Haitians.

James Hill

I suspect she was too smart for men in our age group to tolerate.

Gail Sims

She is a young, charming, personable soccer mom who has been carrying a secret for longer than she can tolerate. She has a child who doesn't have an identity, and she wants to make her life cleaner and wants her son to be able to live a normal life.

Robert Axelrod

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout

We will not tolerate their ineptitude, turn a blind eye to their failures or ignore acts of terror. They will not be able to shirk their responsibility.

Dan Halutz

I do a lot of programs on crime prevention, and when a community puts its foot down that it will not tolerate crime, it can have a bigger impact than law enforcement will ever have.

Bill Rose

Our actions in the aftermath of this terrible incident were swift and decisive. We terminated eight officers and made it perfectly clear that we will not tolerate any unnecessary or excessive force.

Mark Vernarelli

What this means is that Americans will tolerate or even welcome immigrants as long as they show loyalty to this country and behave like the Americans already here. Where newcomers were born or how long they've lived here is secondary.

Jeremy Straughn

Most important thing for the government is consistency of policy. Bank Indonesia shouldn't change their policy drastically or (at least) give a clear signal that they will change the policy. Market will not tolerate a policy slippage.

Anton Gunawan

[This refusal to review the case] opens the door to even higher awards of punitive damages in the future and may signal that the court would tolerate higher punitive damages in cigarette cases than in others.

John Banzhaf

A stronger, more flexible body will tolerate a fall better.

Dean Walker

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

Lewis B. Smedes

Toy manufacturers can make these products at a price parents will tolerate even if kids break them.

John Barbour

The plan goes beyond the avoidance of ejections or violations to discuss what behavior is expected of players, coaches and fans. At the high school level, there is no reason to tolerate anything but good sportsmanship.

Blake Ress

CU cannot and will not tolerate this hateful behavior.

Phil Distefano

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

Natalie Clifford Barney

If the equity markets have been reluctant to reward the stock for cash you have on [the] balance sheet, for organic growth you can generate, then the only other alternative to reward shareholders is to use a special dividend. They have [the] balance sheet to tolerate it.

Bishop Cheen

Has gone way beyond anything that the United States said it would tolerate.

Senator Patrick Leahy

No longer will we tolerate the insult of ashes to ashes and dust to dump.

Diane Horning

The president ... has been very clear that he will not tolerate unfair trade in the steel industry, and I'm sure he will want to raise that.

Lael Brainard

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

Maggie Smith

We will not tolerate this budget being balanced on the backs of hardworking public workers. This governor repeatedly made a commitment of no layoffs, a commitment to cut waste in spending, to cut political appointees and to only cut the state work force through attrition. We're going to hold him to those commitments.

Carla Katz

Led by a prosecutor with GOP ties, Republicans are doing their best to smear Governor Doyle, a man of utmost integrity and honesty who does not tolerate any ethical lapses in his administration.

Joe Wineke

We will not tolerate students nor adults who disrupt the learning process.

Gene Harris

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

The reason you cough is that your body is trying to mobilize mucus and break the secretions up -- your virus load. Fever, too, is part of the body's way of trying to kill viruses. They don't tolerate a high temperature.

Dr. Lyndon Mansfield

It creates a situation that would tolerate that format.

Mike Slive

We can't tolerate this inhumane bill. We need to make sure it doesn't happen.

Bryan Evans

We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.

Hippolyte Taine

We have seen the results of appeasement. ... It is much easier to tolerate a dictator when he is dictating over somebody else's life and not your own.

Vaira Vike Freiberga

We will not tolerate the FDA's decision to approve the destruction of innocent human persons through chemical abortion.

Judie Brown

In Utah we have to take a stand. We have to say we will not tolerate this type of hate in our state. Race issues are queer issues. Women's issues are queer issues. Every issue is a queer issue because it will affect one of us.

John Spillman

We're not going to tolerate this.

Dave Pishkur

It's important to show the people of Wilson County and eastern North Carolina that we're not going to tolerate this sort of thing.

Sheriff Wayne Gay

Charging consumers for bogus collect calls is stealing. The Federal Trade Commission will not tolerate crooks who cram unauthorized charges onto phone bills.

Lydia Parnes

The public can tolerate a Nazi America.

Jack Kevorkian

Investors will tolerate a small increase in inventories -- about 5 to 10 percent -- as long as there is an expectation of strong third quarter sales.

Krishna Shankar

You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything... We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run.

Lewis B. Smedes

We will make our decision as we get closer to trial, ... We will ask the jury award a verdict of a size that clearly says to the gun industry that the public will not tolerate the kind of shoddy practice that was involved in this case.

Paul Luvera

We are very pleased to see the police acting so swiftly. None of us - residents, police and council - will tolerate anti-social behaviour of any kind.

Chris Ball

If we reject any attack against our religion, we should also not tolerate attacks against other religions. We should never forget that some of our imams use mosque pulpits to insult the worshippers of other faiths.

Saad Hagras

You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. [Accepting his Independent Spirit Award].

Sean Penn

It doesn't need it. We can tolerate prices significantly less, but obviously it's a big boost to come at the higher prices.

Jim Buckee

A stronger, more flexible body will tolerate a fall better. The underlying message is that snowboarding and skiing safety have to entail a lifestyle commitment. Maintaining a proper fitness level is essential and winter athletes need to incorporate it naturally into their fitness routines.

Dean Walker

We will continue to take measures necessary to communicate to criminals that we do not tolerate crime in our restaurants. We are posting a reward and will not rest until we find the person responsible for endangering our employees and our community.

Robin Sorensen

I tolerate this century but I don't enjoy it.

Doctor Who

It's not a threat to Western civilization. Nonetheless regulators will not tolerate any segment of the securities industry failing to comply with our laws.

David Shellenberger

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

Sidney Hook

He expects only the best from his choir members. He doesn't tolerate students who aren't committed to the choral art, and I believe that shines through in the quality of our performances. He is very inspiring as a conductor.

Lauren Bush

I am not going to apologize for saying that society is complicit in these fires, ... The ones who should apologize are the people who produce, tolerate and consent to these fires.

Cristina Narbona

This is something that no civilized country can continue to tolerate.

Marthinus Van Schalkwyk

That genre of music is one that anybody can at the very least tolerate and enjoy.

Jack Abraham

The presence of these children shows that we will not tolerate blasphemy and all those who committed the crime should be punished.

Ghafoor Ahmed

A small number of IT vendors are at the moment putting customers at risk of unwittingly running illegal software. Microsoft will not tolerate illegal copies of its software being sold.

Michala Alexander

I am willing to take risks, and willing to tolerate failure as long as we admit it, can learn from it and keep moving forward.

Christine Gregoire

It is such an embarrassment as an American. If people knew what was going on here, no one would tolerate it.

Tim Harmon

We will not allow you to escape your responsibilities. We will not tolerate terrorism and the primary objective will be to guard the border.

Dan Halutz

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

Michael Crapo

We will not tolerate drugs cheats and the bans are part of that.

Hj Dora

Most people in the white-collar world would agree that Enron is the granddaddy of all frauds in the last two decades. How this comes out is a test of the limits of what the corporate community will tolerate in business practices.

Stephen Meagher

I have never been involved in a case where the prosecution has engaged in such inappropriate conduct in terms of making investigators available to the press, appearing on nationally syndicated television. It's improper, it's unwarranted and I will not tolerate it.

Kevin Marino

The focus is on the administration to take the lead and set the tone that we'll be a state that doesn't tolerate reckless driving.

Damien Newton

I think the community is excited enough that it's something they're willing to tolerate.

Judy Hamilton

We can no longer tolerate handling prisoners in public hallways and restrooms for safety and security reasons.

Bob Richardson

That's why we're here tonight. (Sexual violence) touches everyone tonight we're taking the first step in saying we are not going to tolerate it.

Melissa Kleinman

For a judge to tolerate that, that's just unbelievable. It's unacceptable.

George Kendall

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.

Dick Gregory

I can't stand cheap sheets. And I simply can't tolerate stiff pillowcases.

Phyllis Miller

The city will not tolerate residents living in inhuman conditions.

Shaun Donovan

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner

We won't tolerate it. If you act like a gang, we're going to treat you like a gang.

Rick Beseler

As with all investments, what you buy depends on how much risk you can tolerate.

James Dines

The central bank is much more likely to tolerate a strong currency because of inflation. The market is speculating the koruna will gain.

Lars Christensen

I don't think the world can tolerate such a massive surplus.

Dong Tao

Levee failure is not an 'if', it's a 'when'. There seems to be a willingness to tolerate the human suffering and property loss that might come with these events.

Jeffrey Mount

China plans to increase imports, so it will tolerate gains in the yuan. A rising yuan will help to slow exports and help lower the cost of imports.

Xiao Minjie

Americans will no longer tolerate the Republicans' continued abuses of power and catering to corporate special interests.

Nancy Pelosi

We have neighbors complaining about the noise and it?s just not worth it. We?re not out to shut people down, but we?re not going to tolerate problems. I guess you could say that the city is less willing to overlook bars than it was in the past.

William Benson

This performance this weekend, even though we had a win over Iowa, we aren't going to tolerate. We have to use this as a wake-up call. I'd rather have it here than at the NCAA tournament. It's going to be a long ride back home.

Troy Sunderland

The amount of time that Simon is going to be out will be to where he can tolerate being able to go ahead and skate and push off and get the strength back in that one leg. We're looking at no more than two weeks at that point.

Jim Mccrossin

What we have to do is change our societal acceptance, ... A community will have the level of gang activity that it's willing to tolerate.

David Paulson

The world is watching and will not tolerate backsliding and bickering that costs lives.

Bernice Romero

Babies can be very stressful to take care of. The crying and the pooping are extremely hard for some people to tolerate.

James Crawford

At least as long as we can tolerate each other.

Pete Williams

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

James Thurber

There is no legal authority for the chief to thumb his nose at us -- and I won't accept it, ... I won't tolerate it.

Gil Garcetti

Not everybody can tolerate that. Some already have issues with their legs, and we can't put cuffs on their legs. We perform an ultrasound test on their legs.

Brenda Clark

The community, the city that I live in, we're trying to clean the community up, to bring it up, ... We can't tolerate anybody that's going to bring it down so, in my opinion, these guys needed to go.

Terry Brooks

To me, this kind of malfeasance or nonfeasance is precisely what the public cannot tolerate.

Jackie Speier

We want to send a clear message that we will not tolerate people threatening or intimidating victims or witnesses in any case we work.

Frank Rogers

The value set by her people on the freedom and sanctity of the individual, on justice and fair play, on mercy and tenderness towards the weak, and their dislike of lawless violence and their capacity to tolerate, forget and forgive have been, for all England's past mistakes and faults, a very real factor in human evolution.

Arthur Bryant

Tumor cells are more sensitive to the negative effects of heat. If you heat up a normal cell, you can tolerate a fairly high temperature, up into the range of a bad fever. Whereas tumor cells tend to die as the temperature goes up.

John Kane

It doesn't matter what it's called. We will not tolerate it.

Lynn Barnett

This sends a strong message to growers that the law will not tolerate requiring workers to work off the clock.

Tom Lynch

Nice philosophy/ May tolerate unlikely arguments,/ But heaven admits no jest.

John M. Ford

We're more trading off of earnings. Investors will be able to tolerate continued moderate inflation as long as earnings continue to accelerate.

John Twomey

We think that these people can tolerate more changes and maintain their cognitive performance for a longer time.

Dr. Nikolaos Scarmeas

The National Western Stock Show will not tolerate cheating, tampering or unethical fitting. We stand behind our commitment and obligation to uphold the highest standards of honesty, integrity and fair showmanship.

Pat Grant

People don't have to tolerate bad service. And if they're unhappy with the service at one restaurant they go to another one.

Nina Zagat

I would never tolerate a player on my team questioning my integrity. I don't think Donovan should have to, either.

Roger Staubach

Come on, you can tolerate it.

Liz Phair

In Korea, there are many people who keep their family dogs in their garden, neglecting their physical and emotional health and even failing to provide fresh water or warm shelter, and yet attract little criticism. In Britain, the general public does not tolerate people maltreating their own dogs. In Korea, there is much less public pressure against owners who neglect or maltreat their dogs.

Yoon Kerr

If you can tolerate it, the trains generally will.

Paul Busse

It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself.

George Lincoln Rockwell

Ankles and hamstrings, for me, are very tough to gauge. I think he's a day-to-day thing. As he can tolerate more stuff, the stronger his ankle will get and the quicker he'll be back.

Brian Butterfield

Californians have already seen one of their congressional representatives sent to prison in a bribery scandal and they simply will not tolerate more of the same business-as-usual from members like John Doolittle, I don't know what he is saying on his end.

Kate Bedingfield

If you're out in the sun, it's a beautiful day. It's clear as clear can be. But you do have to tolerate the cold.

Rich Hohne

We must not tolerate politicians who infringe upon our right to defend ourselves from thieves and stalkers and rapists and murderers. And we must not tolerate the politician who simply says: 'Pass another gun control law and call 9-1-1.'

Larry Craig

From the beginning of time in the NFL, you need to distinguish what stars can get away with and what others can get away with, ... You can't tell me the Philadelphia Eagles wouldn't have loved to cut Terrell Owens. They can't cut him. He's too talented. They don't have people to replace him. You learn to tolerate stars and their antics.

Cris Collinsworth

Most people have a receptor that's very sensitive to the bitter-tasting compound, but in people that have this variant form, they can tolerate higher concentrations of this bitter compound without it tasting nasty to them.

Alison M. Goate

I am proud of our nationally certified force and satisfied with the clear message they are sending to lawbreakers. We will not tolerate this type of activity in our town.

Harry Hallman

It would be against the law for us to be asking people to get into a car without a driver's license, ... I just can't tolerate that. Everyone who drives needs to have a driver's license and proof of insurance.

Bob Pratt

I don't tolerate insensitivity and neither do they.

Chauvet

What I've done in this decision overnight is to send an absolutely crystal clear signal to everybody that we will not tolerate violence.

Peter Hain

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

Georges Courteline

They're strictly on a week-to-week basis. If they do something, they're out. I won't tolerate it. I'm strictly against drugs and alcohol. I work with them all the time. It isn't hard to tell if somebody's using.

Jackie Gentry

It's sad but I think we will never find a way to end it [Racism]. But I think we can help if we learn to tolerate and accept people the way they are.

Wemberly Cerna

I will not tolerate any human rights abuses by any member of the Ministry of Interior forces. Any person or persons who are found to be guilty of such behavior will be fired and punished to the fullest extent allowed by law.

Baqir Jabbur

I let her up here as long as she will tolerate it.

Phyllis Maxwell

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

William Greider

With our help, I believe the Iraqi people will succeed in establishing an elected government that will no longer tolerate terrorist activities.

Alan Uke

Nobody who volunteers has to tolerate harassment.

Brad Pinsky

This defendant only compounded his problem when he chose to intimidate grand jury witnesses ? something we simply never tolerate.

Bud Cummins

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

Justice Anthony Kennedy

This great man to whom the entire nation bows in respect is being used as a brand ambassador for eggs. This is an insult to Mahatma Gandhi and his principles and the Congress will not tolerate it.

Raghu Sharma

There's a standard of behavior in the locker room, on the floor and everywhere else that I think you have to uphold as a good teammate that just isn't there. I'm not going to tolerate it. Not from Salim or anyone else on this team.

Mike Woodson

If you don't have the quality, the consumers won't tolerate it. There are too many places for people to go.

Jim Mercer

If the international community tries to create the illusion that Serbia is conforming with demands ... we won't be able to tolerate it for long.

Bardhyl Mahmuti

This vendor is going to be out of a contract in a few weeks if they don't fix the problem and fix it right away. We aren't going to tolerate this.

Randy Dunn

We are not going to tolerate this, ... If they decide they're going to violate the law, we are going to come after them.

Charles Bronson

I hope they put them in prison for a long time. We cannot tolerate people transporting illegal aliens under the guise of humanitarian aide.

Laine Lawless

The Iranian nation is united on one thing. Iranians don't tolerate humiliation and threats.

Javad Vaeidi

Many of these people who shout that they don't tolerate coups have a history of taking part in coups themselves.

Richard Cornwell

There is no truth whatever in these allegations. Ashley Cole will not tolerate this kind of cowardly journalism or let it go unchallenged. It is disgraceful that he should be faced with this kind of unpleasant insinuation and innuendo.

Graham Shear

I don't know why some countries do not want to understand the fact that the Iranian people do not tolerate force.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

Jane Rule

We've adapted to having this as a part of the way that we attend events. It hasn't really deterred people from wanting to continue to attend events. It's not something that people object to. They tolerate it because they prefer to be safe.

Lynn Jamieson

You can't teach tolerance with a zero-tolerance policy. It's no big deal to be tolerant of people who are nice to you. The challenge is to tolerate people who aren't so nice. On top of that, 'zero tolerance for aggression' is a logical absurdity, because it ultimately requires that we use aggression to stop it.

Izzy Kalman

We will not tolerate any harassment of the other community.

Uma Bharti

This is long overdue given the severity of problems. That's a race to the bottom we can't tolerate.

Thomas Scott

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.

Pope Gregory Vii

Tolerate waiting and would be patient but only as long as they were convinced that Bush was using the harshest measures possible.

Roger Ailes

We have one law for everyone and no one is above the law. We are not going to tolerate chaos after today.

Mahmoud Abbas

The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of the past. We run too fast, but we still do not move enough. He looks but he does not contemplate, he sees but he does not think. He runs away from time, which is made of thought, and yet all he can feel is his own time, the present.

Eugenio Montale

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

Emily Carr

The US, in fact, is to blame for this gap as the Muslim world cannot tolerate its double standards.

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu

Each day, over one million people are treated successfully, and we all know that in the complex world of a hospital, things can go wrong. But no public health system should tolerate a failure to learn from previous experience on this scale.

Edward Leigh

We do best when we are holding information and we're the only ones who have it. From a practical point of view, we can't tolerate the leaks.

Zulima Farber

We are going for a large-scale operation in Gaza. It depends on what evolves over the coming hours. It is a matter of hours. We will not tolerate this barrage.

Zeev Boim