“Outspokenness, like originality, is not a virtue in itself: Its value depends on its subject matter and the circumstances in which it is exercised. . . . tolerance and respect are quite different things. One does not have to respect a man’s opinions to respect his right to have them: Indeed, tolerance would not be necessary if one respected everybody’s views. It hardly takes tolerance to tolerate what one respects.”
Theodore Dalrymple

Tolerance is considered a virtue (only) by people who don’t believe anything.
G.K.Chesterton

“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.”
Mark Twain

“Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is as barbaric and untruthful a doctrine as has yet emerged from the fertile mind of man.”
Theodore Dalrymple

“Democratic leaders must pretend to be ‘no better than the masses’ -- a pretense which seldom strains credulity, and elevates the lowest common denominator.”
Florence King