Intolerance famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!
-- Arlene Francis -
There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.
-- Bill Maher -
Tolerance for intolerance is not tolerance at all.
-- Bruce Bawer -
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
-- Claude Vorilhon -
Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.
-- Elsa Maxwell -
The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant ...
-- George Eliot -
The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide.
-- Jack Kelly -
Faced with intolerance and hatred, no debate is possible.
-- Jacques Chirac -
Intolerance has been the curse of our country.
-- James Larkin -
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
-- James Russell Lowell -
I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.
-- Katy Perry -
They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.
-- Langston Hughes -
Intolerance of your present creates your future.
-- Mike Murdock -
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
-- Morris Raphael Cohen -
To be right is dangerous, it has ever been the source of all intolerance.
-- Paul Tournier -
Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.
-- Richard Dawkins -
One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.
-- Richard John Neuhaus -
It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.
-- Robert Hugh Benson -
We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance.
-- Rush Limbaugh -
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
-- Simon Davies -
The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.
-- Stockwell Day -
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.
-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich -
Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
-- Timothy Radcliffe -
As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance
-- U Thant -
It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!
-- Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau -
I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.
-- Vikram Seth -
In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief
-- Walter Lippmann -
There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance.
-- William Borah -
You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
-- Susan B. Anthony -
Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless.
-- Dean Frazer