Quotes About Narrow-mindedness

I believe that dogma is often evil.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.

Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

Moreover, there was what Amy called "the cocksuckers' contingent of the country"—what Danny knew as the dumber-than-dog-shit element, those bully patriots—and they were too set in their ways or too poorly educated (or both) to see beyond the ceaseless flag-waving and nationalistic bluster.

Of course, everyone is intolerant of something or someone.

All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension.

The problem with closed minded people, is that their mouth is always open.

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

As is usually true of a man of one idea, he became obsessed.

You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

When a man conclusively exalts one woman, and one woman only, "above all others," you can be pretty sure you are dealing with a misogynist. It frees him up for thinking the rest are shit.

The immediate moment is all that exists for them; everything must serve it, no matter whether what they ruin in the process is something they will be in dire need of the next minute.

The list of the bigots and the list of the fools are always perfectly the same list!

and I do not like french poodle people because a french poodle people is a bastard everywhere

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

Fanaticism is the shortest path to ignorance.

I'd forgotten it was these people I was coming back to: these views, that synagogue full of small, cramped minds, grown twisted through lack of sunlight.

Ignorance and prejudice and fear go hand in hand

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.