We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open,… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Surprisingly one of the forces for secularisation was Christianity itself. As soon as it accepted the idea of a contrary opinion, the… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“What the State can usefully do is to make itself a central depository, and active circulator and diffuser, of the experience resulting… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing… — John Gummer Copy Share Image
The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western… — Marmaduke Pickthall Copy Share Image
“Toleration is the prerogative of humanity; we are all full of weaknesses and mistakes; let us reciprocally forgive ourselves. It is the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights,… — Richard Mentor Johnson Copy Share Image
Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and… — Syama Prasad Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“But such is the nature of the concept of tolerance. It evolves. Every generation puts its own limitations on it, and the… — Russel Shorto Copy Share Image
There can be no tolerance in a law-system for another religion. Toleration is a device used to introduce a new law-system as… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
“The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
![“Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.” quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/581/percy-bysshe-shelley-476_absurdity_had-this-author-sir-w-drummond-academica_2448856.jpg)
