“I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices. And I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy. That men of all creeds have fundamental common objectives is a fact one must learn by the process of education. How to work jointly toward these objectives must be learned by experience.” ThinkingMenBelieveHeartArtMadeSaidFactsTodayBeliefI BelieveProcessCommonEducationQualityPracticeProgressMy HeartCivilizationMercyPrejudiceFundamentalsToleranceObjectivesHaving FunSuspectsCreeds Author:Frank Knox
“Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation of existing policies is easily transformed into forcible resistance of the authority which puts them in execution, and it would be folly to disregard the causal relation between the two. Yet to assimilate agitation, legitimate as such, with direct incitement to violent resistance, is to disregard the tolerance of all methods of political agitation which in normal times is a safeguard of free government.” MenMayTwoFactsGovernmentWould BeLawPoliticalPassionPolicyAuthorityNormalDirectRelationMethodConvictionToleranceViolentResistanceFollyTransformedExecutionViolationDisregardAgitationFree GovernmentIncitement Book:The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand Source: The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand
“Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.” HumansFactsBeliefReligiousToleranceDenialOutlookSecularismFacts Of LifeReligious BeliefEmergenceHomogeneous Author:Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
“Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.” PeopleKindRealFactsFeelingsSinTakenMereCharityToleranceSpiteSinnerSuperiorityIndulgenceParodyPresumptionMerrimentDeep Feeling Book:Christian Reflections Source: Christian Reflections
“Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.” PeopleIfsWorldWantNeedsChildrenIdeasFactsWould BeFeltParentWonderfulResourcesToleranceShrinking Author:Erica Jong