Tolerating even stupid ideas can be a social virtue; but it is a virtue that sooner or later receives its punishment.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452
Showing posts with label tolerance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tolerance. Show all posts
February 20, 2011
#2,820
Unlimited tolerance is nothing more than a hypocritical way of resigning.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452
November 5, 2010
#2,175
Its periods of tolerance serve humanity as time to forge a new intolerance.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 354
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 354
June 25, 2010
May 7, 2010
#1,042
To maintain that “all ideas are respectable” is nothing but pompous nonsense.
Nevertheless, there is no opinion that the support of a sufficient number of imbeciles does not oblige one to put up with.
Let us not disguise our impotence as tolerance.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 185
Nevertheless, there is no opinion that the support of a sufficient number of imbeciles does not oblige one to put up with.
Let us not disguise our impotence as tolerance.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 185
April 26, 2010
#979
Tolerance consists of a firm decision to allow them to insult everything we seek to love and respect, as long as they do not threaten our material comforts.
Modern, liberal, democratic, progressive man, as long as they do not step on his calluses, will let them degrade his soul.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 176
Modern, liberal, democratic, progressive man, as long as they do not step on his calluses, will let them degrade his soul.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 176
April 10, 2010
#882
The modern world demands that we approve what it should not even dare ask us to tolerate.
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 161
Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 161
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