Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

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 Im...

Unlimited tolerance is nothing more than a hypocritical way of resigning. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 452

Its periods of tolerance serve humanity as time to forge a new intolerance. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 354

Our tolerance grows with our disdain. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 230

To maintain that “all ideas are respectable” is nothing but pompous nonsense. Nevertheless, there is no opinion that the support of a suffic...

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 ma...

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