Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant. -Sidney Hook

 

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.


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I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

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It still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the existence of God in any recognizable sense continuous with the great systems of the past, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probabil.

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Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Sidney Hook

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Sidney Hook

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

Sidney Hook