Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
This comprehension of our own personal misery makes us equally understanding of the misery of others. How can one who is really convinced of his own frailty, weakness, and inconstancy, dare to condemn...
As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.
If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.
Humans tend to criticize what they do not understand.
The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the spirit within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew. I have seen this unity with my eyes,...
Decent folk had to let indecent folk do their thing; that was the paradox of decency.
Many voices argue that it is exclusionary to claim that you have the truth, but as we have seen, that view itself sets up a dichotomy with you as the heroically tolerant and others as villainously or...
I hate the bigotry you believe in. But I'll try not to hate you.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...