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. . . TOLERANCE see "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS" see "PREJUDICE" Hear the other side. --Augustine, St. of Hippo (354430) Christian theologian and bishop of Hippo in Roman Africa [396-430]. _De Duabus Animabus contra Manicheos_ Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony. --John Perry Barlow (1947 ) American poet. The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community. --David Boaz (1953 ) American lawyer. In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything. --Ashleigh Brilliant (1933 ) British-born American writer and artist. There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing. --Robert Browning (18121889) English poet. There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. --Edmund Burke (17291797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. _Observation on a late Publication on the Present State of the Nation_ [2nd ed. 1769] Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. --G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (18741936) English essayist, novelist, and poet. Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love. --Frank Moore Colby (18651925) American essayist and professor. _The Colby Essays_ [1926], v. 1 "Trials of an Encyclopedist" I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) English poet, critic, and philosopher. "Biographica Literaria" Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. --Renι Jules Dubos (19011982) French-born American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and Pulitizer Prize winning author. _Celebrations of Life_ [1981] Tolerance does not...do anything, embrace anyone, champion any issue. It wipes the notes off the score of life and replaces them with one long bar of rest. It does not attack error, it does not champion truth, it does not hate evil, it does not love good. --Walter Farrell, _The Looking Glass_ [1951] Make hatred hated! --Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault] (18441924) French novelist, man of letters, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. Speech to public school teachers in Tours [August 1919]. We know the crimes which religious fanaticism has engendered. Let us take care to keep philosophy free of fanaticism; it should be characterized by moderation. In society tolerance should allow everyone the liberty to believe in what he wants; but tolerance would not be extended to authorizing outrageous behavior or licensing young scatter- brains to rudely insult the things that others revere. These are my views, which suit the maintenance of liberty and public security, which is the first object behind all legislation. --Frederick II [Frederick the Great] (17121786) King of Prussia [17401786]. Toleration is a good thing in its place, but you cannot tolerate what will not tolerate you, and is trying to cut your throat. --James A. Froude (18181894) English historian. Tolerance...is the lowest form of human cooperation. It is the drab, uncomfortable, halfway house between hate and charity. --Robert I. Gannon, _Address_, Boston [23 April 1942] What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. --Robert F. Kennedy (19251968) American Democratic politician. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (19291968) American civil rights leader. We've come a long way in America. After two centuries, it seems we finally do have a religious test for office. True religiosity is disqualifying. Well, not quite. Believers may serve but only if they check their belief at the office door. At a time when religion is a preference and piety a form of eccentricity suggesting fanaticism, Chesterton needs revision: tolerance is not just the virtue of people who do not believe in anything; tolerance extends only to people who don't believe in anything. Believe in something, and beware. You may not warrant presidential-level attack, but you'll make yourself suspect should you dare enter the naked public square. --Charles Krauthammer (1950 ) Columnist for the Washington Post who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. An observation of my own, which comes from living in a "tolerant" area: Many who claim to be tolerant are not truly so. If you differ from them in skin color, they have no problem with this. Nor do they have a problem if you have a different cultural heritage, religion, sex, or sexuality. But differ with them on anything else, it seems, and they'll take your head off! Not be pro-Nader in a tolerant city? Perish the thought! Believe capitalism is more likely to work than socialism? Blasphemy, to their eyes. Eat a hamburger while a fellow student is in a mock-up cage pretending to be exposing the plight of animals under a "Meat is murder" sign? Better run for the hills. I only wish I could claim I was exaggerating. People need to remember that tolerance of physical and cultural differences are only the beginning; you must be tolerant of ideas as well. You need not agree, but you must respect the other individual, or your tolerance is nothing more than hypocrisy and lies. --Morgan Lewis (alt.quotations) Since you are pleased to enquire what are my thoughts about the mutual toleration of Christians in their different professions of religion, I must needs answer you freely, that I esteem that toleration to be the chief characteristical mark of the true church. --John Locke (16321704) English political and educational philosopher. _A Letter Concerning Toleration_ [1689] Tolerance is only another name for indifference. --W. Somerset Maugham (18741965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. _A Writer's Notebook_ [1949] enty written in 1896. Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable. --Phyllis McGinley (19051978) American poet and author. As long as human beings can sit and watch with hands folded while their fellow men are tortured and butchered, so long will civilization be a hollow mockery, a wordy phantom suspended like a mirage above a swelling sea of murdered carcasses. --Henry Miller (18911980) American novelist and essayist. _The Colossus of Maroussi_ [1941], ch. 2 We may be confused about the distinction between tolerance and the refusal of evaluation, thinking that tolerance of others requires us not to evaluate what they do. --Martha Nussbaum (1947 ) American philosopher. _Cultivating Humanity_ [1997] I hate people who are intolerant. --Laurence J. Peter (19191990) Canadian teacher and author. Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense. --William L. Phelps (18651943) American educator, journalist, and man of letters. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. --Karl Popper (19021994) Austrian-born British philosopher of science. _The Open Society and Its Enemies_ [1945] My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. --Adlai E. Stevenson (19001965) American Democratic politician. - ... one is not tolerant of something unless one objects to it. I do not tolerate something I either accept or am indifferent to, because it requires nothing of me. Most social liberals, for instance, cannot rightfully be said to be tolerant regarding homosexual behavior since they have no objection to it. You do not have to tolerate that which you accept or affirm. If you want to know whether a liberal is tolerant, ask what he or she thinks of Jesse Helms or Pat Robertson or Kenneth Starr. If tolerance requires an initial objection, then conservatives, ironically, may be much more tolerant than liberals, because there are so many more things to which they object. The least tolerant person is the person who accepts everything, because such a person is not required to overcome any internal objections. To paraphrase G. K. Chesterton, turnips are singularly tolerant. --Daniel Taylor, Deconstructing the gospel of tolerance., Christianity Today. January 11, 1999 Vol. 43, No. 1, Page 42. Too much of what passes as tolerance in America is not the result of principled judgment but is simple moral indifference. --Daniel Taylor, Deconstructing the gospel of tolerance., Christianity Today. January 11, 1999 Vol. 43, No. 1, Page 42. The intolerant person is the one thing that cannot be tolerated, the one person who must be shamed or silenced. A guest commentator on National Public Radio shocked even his progressive hosts, but spoke for many, when he objected to the Southern Baptist belief that a lot of people are going to hell: "The evaporation of 4 million [people] who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place." (It's comforting to see that the dreaded Religious Right is not the only source of intolerance in our society.) --Daniel Taylor, Deconstructing the gospel of tolerance., Christianity Today. January 11, 1999 Vol. 43, No. 1, Page 42. - Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. --Thomas a' Kempis (13801471) German ascetical writer. _Imitation of Christ_ [c.1420] You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. --James Thurber (18941961) American humorist and cartoonist. "The Bear Who Let It Alone" in "New Yorker" [29 April 1939]. The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. --John Wesley (17031791) English preacher and founder, with his brother Charles, of the Methodist movement in the Church of England. No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen. --Wendell Wilkie (18921944) American lawyer and the Republican nominee for the 1940 presidential election (won by FDR). - ...reminded me of my own son's kindergarten profundity...he had a new *best friend * I had heard much about John. Then the class photo came home. "Which one is John?" says I. "Oh that's easy," says my son.."he is the only one with the big stripes on his T-shirt".. John was also the only black Jamaican face in a sea of white ones. --anon. - Our company does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, age, or religion... unless the religions are bizarre and unpopular and can be considered cults (and so may be freely discriminated against), or you are a short, fat, bald, ugly, white heterosexual male (and can be picked on without restraint), or are a nerd, smoker, or single person. Stupid people may now also be discriminated against due to the failure of their lobbying efforts. --anon. --- TOLERANCE (TOPICAL) Always remember this: "Tolerance the great "virtue" of the American left today never applies to those who do not share their opinion." Also remember this: "Jerky college professors who are intolerant of others always believe themselves superior to everyone else." Picture your college-age daughter working hard in extracurricular activities to bring a much respected war hero to her college campus to speak to students about his experiences. When she innocently invites faculty to attend, she receives a reply that not only threatens her, but proceeds to suggest that America's fighting men and women commit treason and execute their commanding officers. Think it wouldn't happen? It did ... this week. Rebecca Beach, a freshman at Warren Community College in Virginia, had worked hard to invite the decorated hero of the War on Terror Lt. Col. Scott Rutter to appear yesterday to discuss the progress being made in Iraq. In response to her invite, Beach received this: "Real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors." John Daly, the professor who responded, went on to tell Rebecca "that he will ask students in his English and writing classes to boycott the event and also vowed "to expose [her] right-wing, anti-people politics until groups like [Rebecca's] won't dare show their face on a college campus." --Kevin McCullough, "Professor to soldiers: Kill officers in Iraq" {kap NOTE: The professor resigned a few weeks after this story broke.} - "The Sounds of Silencing" By Peggy Noonan October 14, 2006 _The Wall Street Journal_ [. . . ] At Columbia University, members of the Minutemen, the group that patrols the U.S. border with Mexico and reports illegal crossings, were asked to address a forum on immigration policy. As Jim Gilchrist, the founder, spoke, angry students stormed the stage, shouting and knocking over chairs and tables. "Having wreaked havoc," said the New York Sun, they unfurled a banner in Arabic and English that said, "No one is ever illegal." The auditorium was cleared, the Minutemen silenced. Afterward a student protester told the Columbia Spectator, "I don't feel we need to apologize or anything. It was fundamentally a part of free speech.... The Minutemen are not a legitimate part of the debate on immigration." [ . . . ] ----- countenance (verb) ['kζw-tκ-nκns] Tolerate; sanction (positively), put up with, favor. It is odd that the verb "countenance" means "tolerate" while the noun means "expression on the face." However, at one time "to keep one's countenance" meant to remain normal or neutral in behavior, not to show any emotional response. So both terms originally referred to the control of behavior (as expressed by the face), then the verb's meaning developed into remaining neutral and from there, by a short hop, to showing toleration or favor. latitudinarian lat-uh-too-din-AIR-ee-un; -tyoo-, adjective: Having or expressing broad and tolerant views, especially in religious matters. mollycoddle (verb) ['mah-li-kah-dκl] To pamper, unreasonably tolerate a lack of discipline, or overindulge.  . . see "TIME" for related links Tomorrow will be a new day. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. _Don Quixote de la Mancha_ [16051615] Pt. 2 [1615], bk. 3, ch. 26 Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Finish each day and be done with it ... You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. --Jesus (A.D. 1st cent) "Mathew" 6.34 The West is overwhelmingly dominant now and will remain number one in terms of power and influence well into the twenty-first century. Gradual, inexorable, and fundamental changes, however, are also occurring in the balances of power among civilizations, and the power of the West relative to that of other civilizations will continue to decline ... The most significant increases in power are accruing and will continue to accrue to Asian civilizations, with China gradually emerging as the society most likely to challenge the West for global influence. These shifts in power among civilizations are leading and will lead to the revival and increased cultural assertiveness of non-Western societies and to their increasing rejection of Western culture. --Samuel Huntington (1927 ) American political scientist. _Clash of Civilizations_ [1996] pp.82-83. Not enjoyment and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Finds us farther than today. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. "A Psalm of Life" [1839] Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past. --Sophocles (496?406 B.C.) Greek dramatist. _Trachiniae_, Line 943 Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself into our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. --John Wayne [Marion Michael Morrison] (19071979) American motion-picture actor. . . see "COMMUNICATION" for related links One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (18441900) German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture. . . see "EVIL" for related links - Yet even this man had not suffered all the torments which the buccaneers inflicted on the Spanish to make them divulge their hidden wealth. Some they hung up by their genitals, till the weight of their bodies tore them loose. Then they would give the wretches three or four stabs through the body with a cutlass and leave them lying in that condition until God released them from their miserable plight by death. Some poor creatures lingered on for four or five days. Others they crucified, with burning fuses between their fingers and toes. Others they bound, smeared their feet with grease and stuck them in the fire. --A.O. Exquemelin _The Buccaneers af America_ [1678] in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 392 Cohan & Major add: Henry Morgan, whose torture techniques are here described, was arrested and transported to London as a sop to the Spanish in 1672. But when war broke out again between the two countries he was knighted. He died in 1688, a wealthy planter and deputy governor of Jamaica. - The healthy man does not torture others generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. --Carl Gustav Jung (18751961) Swiss psychologist. - An American staggered and crumpled to the road. A guard kept kicking him in the ribs. The American tried painfully to rise and extended a pleading hand to the Japanese. The guard deliberately placed the tip of his bayonet on the prisoner's neck and drove it home. He yanked it free and plunged it again into the American's body. . . . Between 7,000 and 10,000 [Filipino and American soldiers] died on the march from malaria, starvation, beatings or execution. Of these, approximately 2,300 were Americans. --John Willard Toland (19122004) American author and historian. Referring to the 60-mile "Bataan Death March" following the Japanese conquest of the Philippine Islands, in _The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire_ [1970]. TOPICAL - If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in 20, 30, or 40 years had been told that in 40 years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal (the "secret brand"); that a man's genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov's plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums. Nor were these isolated, extreme, or extraordinary events being practiced "by one scoundrel alone in one secret place only, but by tens of thousands of specially trained human beasts standing over millions of defenseless victims." Oh, yes, and lest we forget, the interrogators of the Soviet camps were not trying to extract information from their subjects for such laudatory purposes as preventing the further slaughter of innocent human beings such as the victims of the Sept. 11 massacres. --David Limbaugh, "Will the real Gulag please stand up?" quoting Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, "Gulag Archipelago." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44634 - - Great Britain's Foreign & Commonwealth Office has released a report revealing that in 2000 Saddam Hussein approved amputation of the tongue as a penalty for abusive remarks about him or his family, and that he has broadcast TV pictures of this punishment as a warning to would-be dissenters; that Saddam's son Uday maintained a private torture chamber called "the Red Room" in a building disguised as an electrical-power plant along the Tigris River; that Saddam's army retains "professional rapists"; and that inmates in the "casket prison" in Baghdad are kept "in rows of rectangular steel boxes, as found in mortuaries;" which are opened for only half an hour a day until the inmates either confess to crimes or die. --in _Atlantic Monthly_ [January/February 2003] ----- abacinate (verb) [κ-'bζ-sκ-neyt] To blind with a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. excruciate (verb) [ek-'skru-shi-eyt] To inflict severe physical or mental pain on; torture physically or mentally. . . see "TRAVEL" for related links At least we American tourists understand English when it's spoken loudly and clearly enough. Australians don't. Once you've been on a plane full of drunken Australians doing wallaby imitations up and down the aisles, you'll never make fun of Americans visiting the Wailing Wall in short shorts again. --P.J. O'Rourke (1947 ) American political satirist. _Holidays in Hell_ [1988] "Innocents Abroad, Updated" The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in its shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind there is no knowing what may happen to you. --Freya Stark (18931993) English traveller and author. _Baghdad Sketches_ [1929] For six days of the week we find it no trouble at all to drive a car about town. New York's traffic, however furious, is predictable; and her taxis, even in moments of great verve, are accurate. For six days driving is a pleasure, but on Sundays all is changed: the town, we have discovered, fills up with visiting motorists who have come in from the Oranges and the Pelhams to see a movie. They make driving a hazard almost too great to take on. The minute a red light shows, they stop dead, imperiling everybody behind. The instant a taxi seems about to sideswipe them, they swerve desperately over and sideswipe somebody else, usually us. When they are confronted by a mass of pedestrians at the crossing, instead of charging boldly in and scattering them in the orthodox manner by sheer bluster, (which is the only way), they creep timidly up blowing their horns, which lulls the pedestrians and ties up everything. They are easy to spot, these visiting motorists; and the only thing to do, we have found, is to nudge them frequently on the bumper, and chivy them about. --E.B. [Elwyn Brooks] White (18991985) American essayist and literary stylist. "Visiting Motorists, December 2, 1933" in Rebecca M. Dale (ed.) _E.B. White: Writings from The New Yorker 1927-1976_ [1990]. --- A very old Aboriginal man was showing us around Uluru (Ayers Rock). It was the first time he had visited the rock since his childhood [he had lived in a cave], as he dislikes the idea of *tourists* there. He couldn't speak English but my work-mate Neil was translating. It is a culturally sensitive site, well managed by the traditional owners and we came across a sign which stated in several languages Please Do Not Photograph Here -Sacred Site. I watched as a group of (German) tourists got themselves into also sorts of positions to furiously snap this *site* with as much discretion as they could muster- and I felt a little sad that there was so little respect being shown. It was then that I noticed the old man cackling away and whispering something in Pitjantjatjara to Neil who joined in the mirth. The translation relayed to me was... "That isn't a sacred site at all.. it's right behind us..no sign no nothing." A smart bit of tourist *psychology* I thought! It wasn't even given an idle glance. --unknown author, alt. quotations -- A tourist came to a fork in the road and stopped. Spotting a boy by the road, he yelled out, "Hey, kid, does it matter which road I take to Tuscaloosa?" "Not to me it don't" replied the boy. ;void(0)) TOYS . . see also "ENTERTAINMENT & HOBBIES" [ . . . ] Though small clay horses on wheels have been discovered in graves from as early as 1200 B.C., the first toy horse that could be ridden was the hobby, or stick, horse that dates to Greek and Roman times. One story has it that Socrates himself, frolicking with his young sons, was spotted cantering about on a pole adorned by a horse head. The craftsman who first placed a wooden horse on rockers-a likely outgrowth of the cradle-is unknown, but by the end of the 18th century, rocking horses had evolved into ornately crafted, fiery chargers at full gallop, heads outstretched, horsehair manes and tails flowing, glass eyes gleaming. Queen Victoria's nine children insisted on bringing a dapple-gray on family vacations. Napoleon's young son, Joseph-Charles-Franηois, treasured his painted pony. Sweden's King Karl XV and King Prajadhipok of Thailand rode rocking horses in their youth (as did the current heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, on a model carefully selected for him by Queen Elizabeth II). For a long time, rocking horses were the purview of the rich. Then, with the increasing prosperity brought on by the Industrial Revolution, they became nursery fixtures of children born to an emerging middle class. There have been many permutations. In Germany, wooden and papier- mβchι horse frames were often covered with calfskin. In bicycle-crazed France, velocipede rockers-wooden horses mounted on tricycles-were all the rage. Inventive Victorian manufacturers made horses with multiple seats [ . . . ] Americans also produced some of the more flamboyant designs,adopting the style of carousel horses popular at fairgrounds and carnivals. An American also scored a safety breakthrough: in 1878, to guard against horse and rider going head over heels, not to mention scratching floors, bumping into furniture or squashing small fingers and toes, Philip Marqua of Cincinnati patented a safety stand to which the horse's legs are attached. (Purists, of course, disdain the stands.) 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