Category: tolerance
Quotes of Category: tolerance
India is about six times the size of France," he went on, as theglass of alcohol and a bowl of curried snacks arrived at ourtable. "But it has almost twenty times the population. Twentytimes! Believe me, if there were a billion Frenchmen living i nsuch a crowded space, there would be rivers of blood. Rivers o fblood! And, as everyone knows, we French are the most civilisedpeople in Europe. Indeed, in the whole world. No, no, withoutlove, India would be impossible. book-quotetoleranceindiansThe so-called is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to very great restraint, since it makes the bully free to enslave the meek. The idea is, in a slightly different form, and with very different tendency, clearly expressed in .Less well known is the : . - In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. . book-quotesciencetolerancephilosophy
