Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.

When you tolerate intolerance, you're not really being a liberal.

To say a democracy prospers only if one set of voices is heard would be untrue.

They’re like,‘If you have an opinion against us, we’re gonna shut you down.' That’s not American. If you’re gay you should have the right to be gay in peace, and if you’re against it you should have the right to be against it in peace.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.

It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

There is an initial modesty in Liberalism. Liberalism was not originally a doctrine of "man is the king." No, it was a very modest attempt to build a space where people could live together without slaughtering one another.

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.

Many of us, both Jews and Christians, want the public square to be pluralistic, which is neither partisan nor naked.

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Let a hundred flowers bloom.

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

I'm an extreme libertarian, but I realize we're in a democracy, and in a democracy, people can have views of all stripes, and there's no reason to argue about it.

Learning to live with offence is the price of living in a diverse society.

Minority rights are just as important as majority decisions.

A free society means that you might have to put up with a lot of things you despise.

We have taken the idea of tolerance so far that we have to put up with intolerance.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

In the multicultural West, our values are that we have no values: we accord all values equal value

We must see the pluralism of the world, and not bind it by seeking common denominators.

We need to respect free speech, but we need to respect one another's rights to free speech, too.