Quotes About Intolerance

intellectuals have grown too comfortable with the achievements of the European Enlightenment and complacent with the beliefs that religious intolerance, violence, and wars are things of the past, and that religiously motivated violence or subjugation can be committed only by "others" against the West but not by the West against the other.

Piss on the beards of all those self- righteous monkeys. They do nothing but thumb their rosaries and recite a book written in a tongue they don't understand.

But somehow, over these last months, Laila and Aziza—a harami like herself, as it turned out—had become extensions of her, and now, without them, the life Mariam had tolerated for so long suddenly seemed intolerable.

It is fucking crazy to hold on to one moment and say that's the moment that was pure and sacred, and it can only be like that, and I'll kill you if you try to change anything.

Liberal democracy says that cultural tolerance is essential, but you don't have to get very far away from liberal democracy for liberal democrats to get very intolerant.

What do they want?" "They want all the freaks dead. Funny. I don't

People need something to hate to reinforce their own identities.

the Nazis burned books in public. Liberals suppress opinions that differ from their own through influences they want kept secret. The right wing destroyed books. The left destroys authors. —William Wilde Curringer, Unfinished Memoirs

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.

Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

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

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.

When we get through with the Jews in America, they'll think the treatment they received in Germany was nothing.

To all things clergic I am allergic.

Religious tolerance. No! Zero tolerance for any type of religion.

Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

The Bible itself is intolerant, and true followers of God's word should be as well.

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.