"Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.
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“The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.”
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“Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.”