A Quote by Mignon McLaughlin

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

Mignon McLaughlin

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Fools Intolerant Irritated Love Prepared Rascals Rest To Love

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Mignon McLaughlin
American - Journalist
June 6, 1913 - December 20, 1983

I believe we have been too tolerant of the intolerant. We should learn to become intolerant of the intolerant.

Geert Wilders

Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

Karl Popper

There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

Narayanananda Swami.

I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in terms of imagination - my imagination is always fertile. I'm either thinking of my own things or constantly engaged by the things that other people do.

Patti Smith

If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I'm used to people being irritated by me. I'm like, girl, whatever. Be irritated. I'm gonna live my dream.

Bob the Drag Queen

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

Joseph Hall

We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.

Geert Wilders

If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

Karl Popper

All [people] are intolerant.... Only they're intolerant of different things.

Joan D. Vinge

You know that song that asks, "Why do fools fall in love?"? I think the obvious answer is because they're fools.

Ellen DeGeneres

It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.

Margaret Atwood

Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest.

Charlie Daniels

The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Experience seems to convince us that only fools trust, that only fools believe and accept all things. If this is true, then love is most foolish. For if it is not founded on trust, belief and acceptance, it's not love.