Best 171 quotes in «intolerance quotes» category

Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

Barack and I see a future... where no one, no one is forced to live in the shadows of intolerance.

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

Be ever watchful. Be watchful of your thoughts, your deedsLest predjudice, resentment,hatred, and intolerance drive Her from your world... Again.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

Intolerance of your present creates your future.

Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness..... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.

Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it's the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

Let us not become so tolerant that we tolerate intolerance.

Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.

It is easier and much more satisfying to rail against the Right than to suggest that we go back to Genesis 1 and study together. Liberals can be just as intolerant as fundamentalists, and we have arrived at a moment in human history when intolerance and hope are mutually exclusive.

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!

Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.

The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.

The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the "liberal" rhetoric of "equal time." But mistake it not.

The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.

The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adherents uphold it as the sole correct movement, and push it past other formations of a similar sort.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.

The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

Tolerance for intolerance is not tolerance at all.

To be right is dangerous, it has ever been the source of all intolerance.

We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.

We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.

When you tolerate intolerance, you're not really being a liberal.

Ah, well..." I started to say, and then stopped. So that was where he was going; I'd heard it before. Richard had told me that I'd not been standing in my mother's shoes in 1942, when I was born; he'd said I couldn't, or shouldn't, judge her. It was my not forgiving her that irked him-it was my intolerance of her intolerance that bugged him.

Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot who are ignorant.

Although proselytizing is not in itself necessarily intolerant, it does close the open-ended door of pluralism

All Abraham's sons were taught that God would progressively reveal Himself. God's wholeness has yet to be realized. There will always be gaps in our understanding. Why should we fill those gaps with suspicion, bigotry and accusations? Men do it to women; Jews do it to Christians; Christians do it to Muslims. Yet, all these have an implied duty to Abraham. pg 54

ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE STILL THINK THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO GET THERE, THEIR OWN WAY, AND IF WE DIDN'T FOLLOW IT, WE WOULD ALL GET LOST.

All roads lead to Rome, but many people still think there's only one way to get there, their own way, and whoever doesn't follow it, gets lost.

And yet it had come to this: a cult that followed a dogmatic hard line of exclusion and repression, believed its teachings alone were the way that others must follow, and claimed special knowledge of something that had happened more than five centuries ago. It did nothing to soften its rigid stance, nothing to heal wounds that it had helped to create by deliberately shunning people of other Races, and nothing to explore the possibility of other beliefs. It held its ground even in the face of hard evidence that perhaps it had misjudged and refused to consider that it was courting a danger that might destroy everyone. p96

And then this whole deal of new gods, old gods," said his friend. "You ask me, I welcome new gods. Bring the on. The god of guns. The god of bombs. All the gods of ignorance and intolerance, of self-righteousness, idiocy and blame. All the stuff they try and land me with. Take a lot of the weight off my shoulders.

As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on any human being. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torture, least of all to death, for the purpose of upholding or promoting her ideas. She presents herself unstained by cruelties and crimes. But in the Vatican—we have only to recall the Inquisition—the hands that are now raised in appeals to the 'Most Merciful' are crimsoned. They have been steeped in blood!

As for the majority, it is not so much race as it is political affiliation that really divides it today. What was once an issue of physical difference is now one of intellectual difference. Men have yet to master disagreeing without flashing all their frustrations that come with it; the conservative will throw half-truths while the liberal will throw insults. Combine these and what do you get? A dishonest mockery of a country.