The idea so commonly found that skepticism leads to toleration arises from considering the effects of skepticism in the intellectual who takes no active part - not its effects in the man of action. In the man of action, moral relativism and skepticism as to the absolute and universal value of his principles are no obstacle to a fanatical belief in their immediate value as his own clan at the actual moment; they do not weaken in the least his will to impose his principles. How should he glimpse a soul of truth in the principles of others, entitling them to respect, when he does not believe in noble origins of this kind even for his own principles?

Sovereignty