Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
Interpretation
A bigot stubbornly holds onto their beliefs, often dismissing opposing views.
This quote highlights the nature of bigotry, emphasizing the inflexible commitment individuals can have to their own beliefs. It portrays bigots as people who are not open to alternative perspectives, leading to a narrow and often intolerant worldview that disregards the opinions and experiences of others.
In practice
In a discussion about tolerance at a community event.
PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.
Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.
Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'
Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command
NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth
We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
Today we continue a never ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time.
Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves.
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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