The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
I feel like the places where I like to live, or study, or visit are places where people's differences are celebrated rather than just tolerated.
Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!
A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.
Wikipedia lacks the habit or tradition of respect for expertise. As a community, far from being elitist (which would, in this context, mean excluding the unwashed masses), it is anti-elitist (which, in this context, means that expertise is not accorded any special respect, and snubs and disrespect of expertise is tolerated).
If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.
The more famous I get, the more I am tolerated, albeit with some head-shaking.
A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion, or their national origin. Such reports of violence and threats are in direct opposition to the very principles and laws of the United States and will not be tolerated.
I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have been tolerated for so long, had the people been European?
Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.
Iran is independent and independence is not tolerated.
Drunken behavior will not be tolerated, except by those who are being hilarious.
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence.
The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.
All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language.
I have not tolerated an atheist in the ranks of the SS. Every member has a deep faith in God, in what my ancestors called in their language Waralda, the ancient one, the one who is mightier than we are.
Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world. . . felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.
