Terrorism is an intolerant reaction to the hypertolerance of our societies, just as rape may be an intolerance of our boundless se...xual tolerance (paradoxically, the number of rapes increases with the degree of sexual liberation). It is second-generation violence--a reaction to the absence of violence. The same is true of the second-generation illnesses (cancer); they are a reaction to the hyperprotection of our bodies. When a woman turns off all signals of pleasure in your arms and leaves you no other solution but a disenchanted rape, no phantasy is of any use. But the same applies when her sexual demand is so great as to leave no room even for the illusion of rape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a p...oor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down.... If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[In response to this question from an interviewer: "U. S. News and World Report described you this way: 'She's intolerant, preachy..., judgmental and overbearing. She's bright, articulate, passionate and kind.' Is that an accurate description?":] It's ... pretty good [ellipsis in original].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seemed monstrous to our intolerant youth that "poor white folksy" men should have an equal right with gentlemen, born and bred,... in deciding who should represent the county in the Legislature and the district in Congress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is... not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has in...spired.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »