The Paradox of Tolerance
A society that tolerates absolutely everything, including those working to end it, does not remain tolerant for long.
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Austrian-British philosophy of science
Karl Popper
1902 – 1994
Philosopher of science, author of The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934) and The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), the latter written in exile in New Zealand during the Second World War. He is best known for falsifiability as the criterion of scientific status, and, in a single footnote of The Open Society, for the formulation now called the paradox of tolerance.