
“To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.”
As quoted in Who Said That? (1984) by Renie Gee.
“To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.”
As quoted in Who Said That? (1984) by Renie Gee.
"A Plea For Intolerance" (1931)
Letter https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-1712 to William Roscoe (27 December 1820)
1820s
“Bacon makes almost any meal tolerable.”
Source: <i>Bourbon & Bacon</i> (2014), p. 216
House of Lords debate on antisemitism, 20 June 2019 https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/tonge-blames-israel-for-jew-hate-during-debate-on-antisemitism-1.485685
Other
Homosexuality: Bipotenitality, Terminology, and History
“Become tolerant and resist any type of ignorance that is based on dogmas.”
"India After Indira Gandhi" in The Daily Mail, and The New York Times (3 November 1984) https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/03/opinion/india-after-indira-gandhi.html
Context: India has been very lucky in the Nehru family. Nehru was unique in recent world history: a colonial protest figure, a folk hero who did not appeal to fanaticism but was a reasonable, reasoning man. A man committed to science, religious tolerance, the rule of law and the rights of man. Indira Gandhi, his daughter, carried on this way of looking at things. In Britain, she might have had the reputation of being domineering, harsh, even ruthless. And you can easily make a case for her being authoritarian, antidemocratic, stamping out protest. But it isn't enough just to do that. One must consider what was on the other side. In 1975, some opposition parties wanted India to go back to some pre-industrial time of village life. Piety can take odd forms.