Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small… — Sigmund Freud
Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.
In the original German
Die Intoleranz der Massen äussert sich merkwürdigerweise gegen kleine Unterschiede stärker alsgegen fundamentale Differenzen.
Moses and Monotheism · 1939
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Freud, Sigmund. Moses and Monotheism, translated by Katherine Jones. Vintage, 1955, pt. 3.
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Freud, Sigmund. Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion [The Man Moses and the Monotheist Religion]. Hogarth Press, 1939, pt. 3.