Rex Stout Quotes

I can't advocate people not liking each other. But... I'd prefer it.

People like our stuff, some people hate it, but that's like anything, right? Some people love donuts, some people are allergic to 'em.

Somebody's sexual preference is, like, who cares?

Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction.

I'm not one of those radical believers that everybody has to be forced to do one thing.

I was better at baseball, but I really loved football.

I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight

People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.

Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

It's just like calling homosexuals 'gays.' Gay means happy! You know, it's just to try to dilute it so that it becomes socially acceptable, and if you say anything against homosexual marriage or anything - 'Oh, you're not tolerant.' So we're supposed to prostitute our principles, on behalf of tolerance.

We pardon familiar vices.

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

It's fortunately a kind of society we live in where we can be diverse. People can take different paths and not feel like they're doing something wrong.

I think if two people love each other, then what the hell? I think that everyone should have the chance to be equally miserable, if they want. It's the new tolerant me!

That's why they have menus in restaurants, you know. I like steak, somebody else likes spaghetti. That's why they have menus in restaurants. It's a great world.

While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely.

You always hold the key of repentance to unlock the prison door. If they throw the word diversity at you, grab hold of it and say, "I am already diverse, and I intend to stay diverse." If the word is tolerance, grab that one, too, saying, "I expect you to be tolerant of my lifestyle-obedience, integrity, abstinence, repentance." If the word is choice, tell them you choose good, old-fashioned morality.

Freedom is saying I want to do this Not that

If I had my druthers, I would do a lot more.

The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

I know that's not something that people like to do - identify a favorite. But I do.

Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless.