"Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned for thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles."
Info & reflection: It catches a real tension: the moment when sensitivity to offence becomes so widespread that it silences serious thinking. Tolerance as a tool of social conformity, used not to protect the vulnerable but to make disagreement intolerable. The idea is worth keeping whoever said it.
⚠️ Apocryphal attribution: this quote does not appear in any work by Dostoevsky. Shown to be false by Snopes, Lead Stories and Misbar. Memes with this sentence appeared in July 2021 on social media (at first in anti-vax contexts); in Russian they circulated paired with the TV film Heart of a Dog (1988, from Bulgakov), but the sentence is in neither the original text nor the screenplay. Origin: anonymous, modern. Classification: apocryphal.