Quotes About Intolerance

PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

BIGOT, n. One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

When people are fixed on hatred they do not discriminate.

A man who couldn't tolerate small failings in himself was staggered by a big one.

Have them drop their pants. Then we will know who is a kike and who is not." It took only a moment, but soon all the men were standing, their bodies trembling, their knees shaking. One by one, they removed their underwear. Von Strassen shone his flashlight at their private parts. Three were found to be circumcised—a father, his teenage son, and his six-year-old son. "Away with them," Von Strassen spat. "Send them to Auschwitz.

You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

It is axiomatic that men who know little are often intolerant of a point of view that is contrary to their own. The bitterness that has been brought about by arguments on public questions is proverbial. Lovers have been parted by bitter quarrels on theories of pacificism or militarism; and when an argument upon an abstract question engages opponents they often desert the main line of arguments in order to abuse each other.

I would never have dreamt that I would live in this country and that we would see swastikas painted at the door of a psychology professor at Columbia University.

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.

I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

I like things my own way. I like the window open at night, for instance, and I'm too intolerant to adjust to other people's habits.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.

The problem with today's world is that hate is normalized.

Defender la ortodoxia bíblica del cristianismo en materia sexual se consideraba ahora de una intolerancia inadmisible. Los conservadores cristianos estaban sentenciados. Este ya no era el país de siempre.

It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.

all intolerable local situations have become world situations, with the result that the whole world has become a local situation, here, under your nose, staring at you, and when your sensitivity is still alive and not dulled, that is, when you are young, if all you can do is stare back at it helplessly, you run amok, you blow up, you smash whatever is at hand, you express yourself, you seek a release.