Quotes About Intolerance

Anti-Semitism had a long history in the West and pervaded European society.

Think of the cold Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov, or the monk who tries to eliminate all humor in The Name of the Rose, or the frowning Koran burners of Florida. Holier-than-thou people usually end up holier than nobody.

I must be losing patience with my fellow humans, Miss Beryl went on. Anymore I'm all for executing people who are mean to children. I used to favor just cutting off their feet. Now I want to rid the world of them completely. If this keeps up I'll be voting Republican soon.

Frank: I wish I was ADHD or dyslexic. All I got is lactose intolerance. Percy: Seriously? Frank: And I love ice cream too...

For the only time in my life I would be living with a chain-smoking semi-invalid whose chief point of pride in life was his membership in the Ku Klux Clan.

And I will no longer have any dealings with Jews, except for the receipt of money.

Mom says crap like that comes from people who've accomplished so little in life that they feel the need to lift themselves above someone, anyone. So they pick skin color or religion or sexual orientation and say, Well, I might not be much, but at least I'm not a... I'd look at those guys, and see the truth of her words.

But the point, Maya, is that you don't give anyone a second chance. One strike and we're out." "So I'm inflexible and intolerant." "Maybe." "Well, then it's a good thing you're done with me, isn't it?" I headed for the house. Rafe let out a curse.

She was wilful, maddening, quarrelsome and intolerant, but somehow these things were trifling: there was a passion inside her that burned like a candle in a lantern, and it lit up his life.

He was the kind of man George had been fighting for a decade: an ugly, fat, foul-mouthed, stupid white racist.

They usually had easy answers: send all the Mexicans home, put Hells Angels in the army, castrate the queers. The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions. Georgetown was only a few minutes

Fascists. They're both evil.

It was stupid, but people needed someone to hate

Her foreboding about the effects of the papal bull had turned out to be tragically accurate. Puritans could now gleefully point to Catholics as a danger to national security. Intolerance had gained a pretext.

En los últimos tiempos evitaba las discusiones políticas con desconocidos; por lo general, siempre tenían respuestas fáciles para todo: enviar a todos los mexicanos a casa, reclutar a los Ángeles del Infierno para el ejército, castrar a los maricones Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Cuanto mayor era su ignorancia, más vehementes eran sus opiniones.

It has been often said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the fruits of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence.

How like a fawning publican he looks!I hate him for he is a Christian.

I have a daughter;Would any of the stock of BarabbasHad been her husband rather than a Christian!

I remember hearing a saying long ago: 'Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,' " I said.

I remember hearing a saying long ago: 'Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,' " I said.

Men who start by burning books end by burning other men

No wonder religious fundamentalism and extreme right-wing nationalism simultaneously reappear.

Si no crees en mi Dios de amor y justicia, te mato!

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