Quotes About Intolerance

And I find I must remember that the pain is not its own reason for being. It is a part of living. And the only kind of pain that is intolerable is pain that is wasteful, pain from which we do not learn. And I think that we must learn to distinguish between the two.

I wish Rick would be gang-raped by a bunch of Muslim garbage collectors.

We have also an edition of The Trial, by the notorious Jew, Kafka. Berlin would appreciate it, I am thinking, if this too was added to the bonfire. Also the works of that decadent lesbian Bolshevik, Jane Austen.

It's easy—too easy—to either disbelieve or disregard someone you dislike.

People hate what they fear.

I assure you; while I look like a ghost, I'm no spirit or demon. I'm nothing but a girl struggling to make her way in an intolerant world. I bleed, I love, and someday, I'll die.

The intolerance of uncertainty and ignorance flows not only from pridefulness, but from a universal human desire to find meanings and patterns everywhere. The mind abhors a vacuum.

The majority-rule society has produced nothing more than heart-ache and intolerance. Throughout this majority-rule period it has been the members of the minority who have made an impact. It only takes one person to kill a hundred. It only takes one dictator to oppress millions. For better or for worse, it is the daring few who have shaped this so-called majority-rule society.

Rising intolerance for opposing viewpoints is a challenge not only on college campuses but also in our national political discourse.

universities, which ought to be forums for open debate, are developing a reputation for dogmatism and intolerance.

What Hitler and Stalin had in common was the same aspiration that animated the first inquisitors - the simple but deadly notion that it was both possible and desirable to rid the world of anyone whom the regime deemed to be unworthy of life.

Gli omosessuali gli fanno paura, li odia, Pensa che un omosessuale ereditario possa contaminare con la sua malattia decine di giovani, e che allora tutti quei giovani saranno perduti per la razza.

new antisemitism with its German forerunner is its irrational, self-contradictory character. Jews were hated in Germany because they were rich and because they were poor, because they were capitalists and because they were communists, because they kept to themselves and because they infiltrated everywhere, because they believed in a primitive faith and because they were rootless cosmopolitans who believed nothing.

The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable." --from The Chalk Garden

If Judeophobia has a millennial trajectory, anti-Semitism was born in the second half of the historical sequence noted above (1850–1950).

relations between Jews and non-Jews not only became worse almost immediately after 1933, but they continued to worsen over time.

anti-Semitism became ever more palatable and popular among their German neighbors over the years.

Intolerance is the Do Not Touch sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too. —HEINRICH HEINE

Heinrich Heine wrote the chilling words: "Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen." Heine was a German Jew who converted to Christianity, and his words were a grim prophecy, meaning, "Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too." That

Extremism catches hold when all hope is gone, when a human being has been stripped of everything except hatred.