"We set ourselves to achieve a society that would be maximally tolerant. But that resolve not only gives maximum scope to the activities of those who have set themselves to achieve the maximally intolerant society. It also... paralyses our powers of resistance to them."

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Source : David Stove (2017). “On Enlightenment”, p.164, Routledge

David Stove

#Giving Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Resistance Quotes

“I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.”
“Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.”
“America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.”
“I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this is where I want to end.”
“I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it is as if we had never lived”
“The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether or not it is in our selfish interest to do so.”
“If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”

Source : Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.334, Crown Forum
“The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.”

Source : August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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