If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.
Hitler could not tolerate too much social contact.
Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.
Tolerate no Uncleanliness in Body, Clothes, or Habitation.
Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.
It's got two aspects. The bit that involves the public life I could not really tolerate and cannot really tolerate. I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that.
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.
You will never change what you tolerate.
Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.
We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
the lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. . . . In the age-long war between men and women, she is a hostage in the enemy's camp. Her fortunes do not rise and fall with those of women but with those of men.
Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.
My own experience from a decade ago taught me I cannot trust the UN. But it is a world body and we have to live with it and tolerate it. But I can't hide my feelings about its inefficiency and its not being productive.
Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.
We should learn to tolerate nuclear weapons of North Korea just like we did the Soviet Union.
No state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. It will expand as much as public opinion will tolerate.
At a time when everybody in our culture is talking about tolerance, it seems that tolerance has the highest premium of any response - "If we just tolerate one another. . . " But my feeling is: Who wants to be tolerated? People don't want to be tolerated; they want to be loved.
We need to learn how to love each other. If we cannot do that, then we need to learn to respect one another. If we can't manage to do that, then we must learn to tolerate each other.
Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories.