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What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

Meryl Streep

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Meryl Streep
American - Actress
Born: June 22, 1949

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

Elie Wiesel

The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.

John Blair

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

Florence Nightingale

Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.

Ravi Zacharias

I always say now it's the indifference that kills patients in the field and different populations. We have to break our indifference towards the suffering of people elsewhere.

Joanne Liu

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But what is more important than the definition is the field of its application. The important point here is this: Tolerance applies only to persons but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth but never to persons. Tolerance applies to the erring; intolerance to the error.

Fulton J. Sheen

There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.

Fleur Adcock

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

W. Somerset Maugham

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

Margaret Chase Smith

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

W. Somerset Maugham

There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one’s vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women.

Gustave Flaubert

Some of us do talk about women like objects, which dehumanizes them.

John Dickerson

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Racism is worse than ever. Violence is worse than ever. The economy's worse than ever. Unemployment's worse than ever. And it's Democrats that have been running the show, with the first African-American president at the top of the heap, and it didn't get any better?

Rush Limbaugh

The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

Samuel Beckett

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