“No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate in which limits may be established, in which there are principles to be respected. That is why tolerance is not coexistence with the intolerable. Under an authoritarian regime, in which authority is abused, or a permissive one, in which freedom is not limited, one can hardly learn tolerance. Tolerance requires respect, discipline, and ethics.” MayDoePrinciplesDemocracySocietyProduceDisciplineLimitsAuthorityEthicsClimateToleranceRegimesCoexistenceIrresponsibility Author:Paulo Freire
“As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal followers of his own person - so the noble rhetorician uses language to wean men away from their inclination to depend on authority, to encourage them to think and speak clearly, and to teach them to be their own masters.” ThinkingMenPersonsUseSpeakLanguageCausesTeachProduceMastersDependsAuthorityIncreaseNobleFollowersLoyalInclination Author:Thomas Szasz
“Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law.” MayLawPurposeJusticeProduceJudgingAuthorityCourtForgottenLawyerObedienceCourt System Author:Charley Reese
“Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.” YearsInterestRightsGenerationsProduceAuthorityPoliceThreatenedNew GenerationSwedishLukewarmLegal Rights Author:Steig Larsson
“When men have appreciated the countless differences which the exercise of that judgment must necessarily produce, when they have estimated the intrinsic fallibility of their reason, and the degree in which it is distorted by the will, when, above all, they have acquired that love of truth which a constant appeal to private judgment at last produces, they will never dream that guilt can be associated with an honest conclusion, or that one class of arguments should be stifled by authority.” MenShouldReasonDreamLastsDifferencesClassAtheismHonestProduceExerciseDegreesAuthorityJudgmentArgumentConstantGuiltPositive AtheismConclusionAppealsAppreciatedFallibility Book:History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe Source: History of the rise and influence of the spirit of rationalism in Europe