"Tolerance for intolerance is not tolerance at all."

-- Bruce Bawer

#Tolerance Quotes #Intolerance Quotes

“Love comes to those who believe it, and that's the way it is.”

Source : Catchphrase, used at the end of the CBS Evening News (1962-81).
“I'm not a proper anything. Majoring in philosophy kind of turns positive assertions into maybes.”
“God has not promised to bless my thoughts, but He has promised to bless His Word.”
“My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.”
“America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance â€” it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.”

Source : "A Plea For Intolerance". Essay by Fulton J. Sheen, 1931.
“Emma took the revelation, on polygamy supposed she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it, and he had handed the revelation to Bishop Whitney, and he wrote it all off... She went to the fireplace and put it in, and put a candle under it and burnt it, and she thought that was the end of it, and she will be damned as sure as she is a living woman. Joseph used to say that he would have her hereafter, if he had to go to hell for her, and he will have to go to hell for her as sure as he ever gets her.”
“Most of the jokes that I wrote were funny and there always seems to be an aspect of comedy in my long-form work. I think that's how life is. I think even the more dramatic moments of one's life are often punctuated by very funny comments or situations. I like to say, "Keep your comedy serious and your drama funny, and you'll be pretty true to life."”
“Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.”

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