"Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones."

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A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

— Thomas Carlyle