Courage is the ability to live with ambiguity.
Chest-thumping self-certainty is the inability to persuade
- even oneself -
without some threat of violence.
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“Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.”
G.K. Chesterton: "Lunacy and Letters."
“It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.”
G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
"The bigot is not the man who thinks his opponent mistaken. The bigot is the man who will not think him mistaken." G. K. Chesterton
"Bigotry in the main has always been the pervading omnipotence of those who do not care crushing out those who (do) care in darkness and blood." Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
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