#tolerate

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#city #due #fact #immensely #just

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#american #american society #cities #despair #inner

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

— Anthony Kennedy

#amendment #beside #does #first #first amendment

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#corruption #done #government #government officials #i

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

— Jean Rostand

#disadvantages #fortitude #millionaires #more #nothing

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate. ↗

— Jane Rule

#human #human beings #tolerate #understand

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#assert #capabilities #choose #commandment #different

I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#addition #depth #i #matter #storytelling

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#easier #imperfection #served #small #tolerate

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy. ↗

— Harold Russell

#any #authority #away #civil #constitutional