Quotes About Intolerance

What can be more calamitous than that men should be regarded as enemies and put to death, not for any crime or misdeed, but for being of independent mind?

Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation's university system, their marriages are not recognized and their cemeteries and holy places have been desecrated. It is government policy to incite hatred of Bahais in the official media.

I don't recommend being gluten-free unless you have sensitivity.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

Being in a person's head for five months, where they're so hateful, is kind of exhausting.

People come up to me, they want to fight me. I've faced a lot of people come up to me and saying racist things, hateful things, aggressive things.

I think what happens is when you have fear, fear translates into hatred.

You can't help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies.

Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had one been different?

There are people that are convinced of the wickedness both of armies and of police forces, but who are nevertheless much more intolerant and inquisitorial in outlook than the normal person who believes that it is necessary to use your violence in certain circumstances.

a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.

The ordinary people in the street – partly, perhaps, because they are not sufficiently interested in ideas to be intolerant about them – still vaguely hold that I suppose everyone's got a right to their own opinion. It is only, or at any rate it is chiefly, the literary and scientific intelligentsia, the very people who ought to be the guardians of liberty, who are beginning to despise it, in theory as well as in practice.

Bir insan?n size laterna gibi saat ba?? propaganda üfürmesi dehÅŸet bir ÅŸey. Tekrar tekrar ayn? ÅŸeyler. Nefret, nefret, nefret. Hadi, hepimiz bir araya gelelim ve bir güzel nefret edelim. Durmamacas?na.

Trust a snake before a Jew and a Jew before a Greek, but don't trust an Armenian

Kill every dog, every cat, she said slowly. Kill every mouse, every bird. Kill every fish. Anyone objects, kill them too.

I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ideas with the exigencies of Academy rules. They ask me for something religious: very well, I shall do something religious, but of the pagan religion. . . . I have always read the ancient pagans with infinite pleasure, while in Christian writers I find only system, egoism, intolerance, and a complete lack of artistic taste.

Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working people in America. I support opportunity in America. And I support Barack Obama for another four years as president of the United States of America!

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

Evil is tolerable if purged of coarseness.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.

If you're gay or religious you're always hearing this word tolerance. It's a pathetic word. It's actually just a politically correct word for the term intolerance.

You can't reduce a country to its tolerance or intolerance.

It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first settlers on New England shores.