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Tolerance
From E. M. Forster (1940/1951), “Tolerance” (Two Cheers for Democracy):“Tolerance, I believe, will be imperative after the establishment of peace. It’s always useful to take a concrete instance: and I have been asking myself how I should behave if, after peace was signed, I met Germans who had been fighting against us. I shouldn’t try to love them: I shouldn’t feel inclined. They have broken a window in my little ugly flat for one thing. But I shall try to tolerate them, because it is common sense, because in the post-war world we shall have to live with Germans. We can’t exterminate them, any more… waisberg.micro.blog
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They look to the future to realize themselves. —Lionel Trilling, 1951?