Of those who demand tolerance,, The Mechanics of Virtue, Matt Berry, aphorism 70

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Of those who demand tolerance, few – if any – would be capable of conferring it themselves if the roles of the adversaries were suddenly reversed.  This is because one cannot know what tolerance really is without first being in a superior position from which to confer it, but being in such a position precludes the motivation from which it had been demanded.







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