Neo_classical

“Universal toleration becomes questionable when its rationale no longer prevails — when tolerance is extended to individuals who are indoctrinated and manipulated, who express as their own the opinions of their masters, for whom heteronomy has become autonomy.

The telos of tolerance is truth.”
― Herbert Marcuse, Repressive Tolerance

“If you wish to extinguish that enthusiasm which inspires great thoughts and impels men to noble enterprises—if you wish to render men's hearts cold and unfeeling—then substitute egotism in the place of generous and ardent patriotism.

If you wish to do this, only take away from the people their faith, and make them philosophers.”
― Joseph de Maistre, Letters on the Spanish Inquisition

“The nation is not the 60 million people who live in it. That is a confused mixture. One says, yea, the other says, nay. That is not a nation. A nation is characterized by consciousness.

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If an entire people (Volk) has become cowardly, and there are only a thousand left who want something great, and who have the power to transform the state, then those thousand are the people.”
― Joseph Goebbels

“This pure toleration of sense and nonsense is justified by the democratic argument that no one — neither group nor individual — is in possession of the truth, or capable of defining what is right and wrong, good and bad. Therefore, all contesting opinions must be submitted to the people for their deliberation and choice.

But I have already suggested that the democratic argument implies a necessary condition: namely, that the people must be capable of deliberating and choosing on the basis of knowledge; that they must have access to authentic information; and that, on this basis, their evaluation must be the result of autonomous thought.”
― Herbert Marcuse, Repressive Tolerance