Success Quote by Bryant H. McGill

McGill’s line sells tolerance as a kind of tactical judo: don’t meet ugliness with matching ugliness; meet it with a refusal to be pulled into its script. The “intolerable” thrive on predictable opposition because it confirms their self-mythology: they’re embattled truth-tellers, persecuted by the “soft.” Tolerating them, in this framing, isn’t passive acceptance so much as strategic deprival. If you don’t give them the friction they’re looking for, you deny them the adrenaline, the martyr narrative, the easy villain.

The subtext is optimistic about human change. “Your indulgence may soften their malice” assumes malice is, at least sometimes, a hardened posture rather than a fixed identity; it can be thawed by encountering steadiness, patience, dignity. There’s also a quiet appeal to moral confidence: tolerance becomes a performance of “more honorable ways,” a social proof that decency isn’t weakness. In a culture that often rewards dunking and escalation, the quote argues for an older kind of strength: self-control as leverage.

Context matters, because “tolerate them” is doing a lot of work. In an era of online pile-ons, purity tests, and algorithmic outrage, McGill is pushing back against the idea that justice must be loud to be real. Still, the counsel risks collapsing key distinctions: tolerating a difficult person is different from tolerating dehumanizing ideas. The quote works best as interpersonal strategy, not as a blanket political principle, and its power lies in that tension between idealism and real-world limits.