Treatise On Tolerance Quotes & Sayings

Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine. — Ellen Hopkins

I've confessed to everything and I's liked to be hanged. Now, if you please — Franny Billingsley

Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education. — Bernie Sanders

To say this, however, is not to claim that it was the object of theoretical study. — Aristotle.

In recognizing that words have power to define and to compel, the semanticists are actually testifying to the philosophic quality of language which is the source of their vexation. In an attempt to get rid of that quality, they are looking for some neutral means which will be a nonconductor of the current called "emotion" and its concomitant of evaluation. — Richard M. Weaver

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

She now discovered amidst them, the poet's flights of fancy, and the historian's seldom pleasing - ever instructive page. The first may transmit to posterity the records of a sublime genius, which once flashed in strong, but transient rays, through the tenement of clay it was given a moment to inhabit: and though the tenement decayed and the spirit fled, the essence of a mind which darted through the universe to cull each created and creative image to enrich an ever-varying fancy, is thus snatched from oblivion, and retained, spite of nature, amidst the mortality from which it has struggled, and is freed. The page of the historian can monarchs behold, and not offer up the sceptre to be disencumbered of the ponderous load that clogs their elevation! Can they read of armies stretch upon the plain, provinces laid waste, and countries desolated, and wish to be the mortal whose vengeance, or whose less fierce, but fatal decision sent those armies forth! — Mary Charlton

If you're successful, don't crow. If you're defeated, don't croak. — Samuel Chadwick

Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. — David Gemmell

The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror ... if it has only the capacity to reflect. — Andre Breton

[Obama's reelection] would subject the country to what might be a fatal last dose of statism. — Mitch Daniels

If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone. — Rachel Weisz

Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property
thus excluding others from the freedom they gain
the property-less working class possess nothing but their title as human beings. Thus they can liberate themselves only by liberating all humanity. — Peter Singer

Someone has to puncture the prevailing fiction that we're a "family" here, we "associates" and our "servant leaders," held together solely by our commitment to the "guests." After all, you'd need a lot stronger word than dysfunctional to describe a family where a few people get to eat at the table while the rest - the "associates" and all the dark-skinned seamstresses and factory workers worldwide who make the things we sell - lick up the drippings from the floor: psychotic would be closer to the mark. — Barbara Ehrenreich