logo

Quotes About Intolerance

The disgusting truth is that some of the less-educated families in the Caucasus hate and despise Russians simply because they are Russian, just as some less-educated Russian families feel the same way about people from the Caucasus.
~ Margarita Simonyan
I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.
~ Elsa Maxwell
Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
~ A. N. Wilson
The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.
~ Judith Tarr
I grew up in a Britain where 'Paki-bashing' was around in my late teens from the National Front. We also had 'Pakis Go Home,' and even 'Jewel In The Crown' attracted this sort of comment.
~ Art Malik
One of the things that pushed me over the edge was that people on the Left were calling me names. How many kicks in the teeth do you have to endure.
~ Cindy Sheehan
I've never thought of myself as having that much of a temper. But it's true that I can't stand it when things are not done properly. When that happens, I cannot control my reaction.
~ Joel Robuchon
Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
In the name of universal benevolence Christians have hated their fellow-men.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
In a society that rejects absolute truth, the only vice that cannot be tolerated is the sin of intolerance.
~ Robert Jeffress
If we do not agree to reduce cruelty and moderate a situation intolerable for human beings," she said, "then they themselves will take things in hand.
~ Robert K. Massie
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
~ Robert Kennedy
I loved every one of these people. And I couldn't take another minute of their company.
~ Robin McKinley
the worst aspect of our time is prejudice... In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this - man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.
~ Rod Serling
To offer toleration to those gripped by animosity to your way of life is to open the door to destruction. An elaborate lit review, more the history of conservatism.
~ Roger Scruton
Pierpont's anti-Semitism was well known.
~ Ron Chernow
which he attributed to his discomfort with Jews.
~ Ron Chernow
She was made to stand in a garbage can for twelve hours, as the other detainees demanded that she confess her own "homosexual tendencies.
~ Lawrence Wright
Not too long ago, the man who was then the president of Iran was quoted as saying that Jews descended from monkeys and pigs.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
He deserves to have his head on a spike for all to see. Waring: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.
~ Libba Bray
if there's anything I'm starting to learn about people it's (a) that they are fundamentally suspicious and afraid of anyone who is "different," and (b) that fear makes them do and say asinine things.
~ Libba Bray
The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers.
~ Lance Morrow
Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
~ Neale Donald Walsch