Susanne Bier Quotes

Attacking women and children was both wrong and counter—productive.

No human being shall be burdened with more than he is well able to bear.

A large capacity to tolerate atrocity does not imply an unlimited capacity.

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

I will not tolerate your faults. They are of no use to me.

People who give off about fat-shaming and body-shaming are often the same people who talk about Trump's hair or how fat he is, or how old he is. The size of his hands and his fingers - that's the big one: let's all have a big laugh at his hands.

A society in which people feel they have a legitimate right to stop someone expressing their views on campus simply because they are unfashionable or unpopular is rather chilling.

My threshold for mean gossip is nearly intolerable.

I remember politicians in Northern Ireland were sometimes called 'verbal incendiarists,' as they didn't actually do anything but they said certain things. So when you hear certain politicians using nasty language, that colours our lives. It makes some other people think it's OK to racially abuse people.

There are certain things I would never write about - anything that's too distasteful. I think that you can withhold information.

I don't ever cross the line. I step right up to it. I put my toes on the line, but I don't ever cross that line. There are some barriers you just don't cross - you don't talk about religion; you don't talk about race. Those are lines I will never cross.

We don't work with anyone.

I don't like it when my friends get used.

My disdain for Trump is clear and warranted.

Not that I shouldn't have been traded - everyone gets traded at some point. But the way that it went down wasn't justifiable.

It's not okay to lie about people and particularly not okay to hurl the worst imaginable names at people just because you think you might not like their politics.

I don't like doing things without understanding the meaning. Once I walked out of a film event as I could not stand the insult they meted out to a Sanskrit verse.

Some of the occurrences leading up to and immediately following the Berlin World Championships have infringed not only my rights as an athlete but also my fundamental and human rights, including my rights to dignity and privacy.

If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive.

We are not all able to do all things.

Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.

Someone once said that many bad policies are just good policies that have been carried too far. For example, we have taken tolerance to such an extreme that we tolerate the immigration into our country of millions of intolerant people who hate millions of Americans who are already here.

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.

Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy.

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.