Quotes About Intolerance

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.

A Minnesota pastor was tarred and feathered because people overheard him praying in German with a dying woman.

How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?

Objectivity is obsessed with exactness and tends to be rather intolerant of deviation, almost

For most of its existence, Christianity has been the most intolerant of world faiths, doing its best to eliminate all competitors, with Judaism a qualified exception, for which (thanks to some thoughts from Augustine of Hippo) it found space to serve its own theological and social purposes.

Anti-Semitism was clearly not just anti-Christian and immoral but also quite foolish.

When a Jew dies on a Christian bosom he dies impaled.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas.

My life's mission is to unmask the Jews.

Wow, so homophobic.

Wouldn't it be easier to change people's eyes and hair than to build big furnaces and then catch Jews and Gypsies to burn them?

People will hate you for no apparent reason.

Diese Leute, ob sie nun von rechts oder links anmarschieren, wollen die Blutvergiftung heilen, indem sie dem Patienten mit einem Beil den Kopf abschlagen. Allerdings wird die Blutvergiftung dabei aufhören, zu existieren, aber auch der Patient, und das heißt, die Therapie zu weit treiben.

Before another three years passed, the book was being burned by the Nazis, who found the depiction of a disillusioned and demoralized German soldiery to be intolerably offensive.

Fundamentalism, in whatever form, solves no problems but only suppresses them. We must not succumb to the temptation that from time to time emerges from it and its apparently simple and clear solutions. With its intolerance, it can have no future: things must not be reduced to a single, isolated principle, be it ever so noble and elevated. Always and above all, the whole is at stake.

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure that you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

In our consumer culture, we always want the next best thing: the latest, the newest, the youngest. Failing that, we at least want more: more intensity, more variety, more stimulation. We seek instant gratification and are increasingly intolerant of any frustration. Nowhere are we encouraged to be satisfied with what we have, to think, this is good. This is enough.

No one, he said, 'outside a madhouse' would want to start another war, but 'There is a nation which has abandoned all its liberties in order to augment its collective might. There is a nation which with all its strength and virtues is in the grip of a group of ruthless men preaching a gospel of intolerance and racial pride, unrestrained by law, by Parliament or by public opinion

People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer.

I was terribly intolerant, but they were terribly threatening to me. They were everything I was afraid of becoming.

Intolerance and superstition has always been the domain of the more stupid amongst the common folk and, I conjecture, will never be uprooted, for they are as eternal as stupidity itself. There, where mountains tower today, one day there will be seas; there where today seas surge, will one day be deserts. But stupidity will remain stupidity. Nicodemus de Boot, Meditations on life, Happiness and Prosperity

L'intolleranza e la superstizione sono sempre state prerogativa della parte più stupida del volgo e credo che non saranno mai estirpate, perché sono eterne quanto la stupidità stessa. Là dove oggi torreggiano le montagne un giorno ci saranno i mari, là dove oggi si agitano i mari un giorno ci sarà il deserto. Ma la stupidità rimarrà stupidità.