Showing posts with label tolerance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tolerance. Show all posts

February 21, 2011

#2,821

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

February 20, 2011

#2,820

Unlimited tolerance is nothing more than a hypocritical way of resigning.

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

June 25, 2010

#1,338

Our tolerance grows with our disdain.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 230

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

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

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