Daniel Immerwahr Quotes

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.

There is no one orthodoxy which is the enemy of democracy. All of them are.

The more educated we are, the less we are prepared to tolerate views contrary to our own.

While Justin Trudeau uses the slogan, 'Diversity is our strength,' he has demonstrated time and again that he does not extend that diversity to thought or conscience.

Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.

The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.

Any open society that tolerates intolerance, sees tolerance disappear and the tolerant along with it.

No religion can be built on force.

Today the only thing which is not tolerated is intolerance.

The freedom allowed in the United States to all sorts of inquiry and discussion necessarily leads to a diversity of opinion, which is seen not only in their being different denominations, but different opinions also in the same denomination.

Freedom is found in pluralism.

Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.

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

If we try and make out of the American people a people of one mind and one mold, we're through.

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