Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Truth must sometimes be firm against evil rather than tolerant.
- In plain terms
- Truth cannot tolerate evil without losing itself.
- What can you take from it?
- Sometimes standing firm is required to protect truth.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When is intolerance necessary to protect truth?
- How do you know when to be tolerant or firm?
Another view
Tolerance can be valuable; intolerance can also be used by the wrong side.
More from Rabindranath Tagore
True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but…
Permalink to quote #164 Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness. We do not love because we do not comprehend, or rather we do not comprehe…
Permalink to quote #166 Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Permalink to quote #163
Related quotes
For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom t…
Thomas Henry HuxleyThomas Henry Huxley quote #31 The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.
Franz BoasFranz Boas quote #1 'Don't ever ask me for a true statement again!'
Evan MechamEvan Mecham quote #1