Quotes About Intolerance

No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.

Those of little faith are of little hatred.

It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the same old story over and over again.

You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.

The very thought of such people's intolerant worldview, their inflated sense of self superiority, and their callous imposition of their own beliefs on others was enough to fill her with rage.

How you can argue with those who whip, stone and murder people because they wanted to live their life?

It's rather simple. God deliver us from people who know so little that they will kill for what little they know.

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

We moderns have an arsenal of tranquillisers and painkillers at our disposal, but our expectations of ease and pleasure, and our intolerance of inconvenience and discomfort, have increased to such an extent that we may well suffer from pain more than our ancestors ever did.

Were Christian conquistadores more ethical than pagan Native American tribes? What monotheism undoubtedly did was to make many people far more intolerant than before,

On 23 August 1572, French Catholics who stressed the importance of good deeds attacked communities of French Protestants who highlighted God's love for humankind. In this attack, the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, between 5,000 and 10,000 Protestants were slaughtered in less than twenty-four hours.

Se você quiser manter qualquer grupo humano isolado – mulheres, judeus, ciganos, gays, negros –, a melhor forma é convencer todos de que essas pessoas são fonte de contaminação.

This is the God of the Crusaders and jihadists, of the inquisitors, misogynists, and homophobes. This is the God we talk about when we stand around a burning pyre, hurling stones and abuses at the heretics being grilled there.

Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, rather than emancipation, political struggle, or even armed struggle?

Fear, ignorance, and hatred - these are the trinity of malice.

Antisemitism is not the hatred of people who happen to be Jews. It is hatred of them because they are Jews.

Another reason numbers should not drive us is that antisemitism is a worldview, a conspiracy theory. It therefore cannot simply be measured by the number of recorded antisemitic acts or by the number of people being categorized as antisemites.

Since antisemitism and, for that matter, all forms of prejudice are impervious to reason, they

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Nothing can be more violent and merciless than a group of true believers, no matter what they choose to believe.

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

That's why people become racists, and sexists and terrorists. Because we don't talk, we don't listen, because we don't know, we live only in our own heads.

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.