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Quotes About Intolerance

I am very impatient.
~ Martha Nussbaum
I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence.
~ Amos Oz
I'm incredibly defiant against neo-Nazis and skinheads.
~ David Draiman
Fanaticism never sleeps: it is never glutted: it is never stopped by philanthropy; for it makes a merit of trampling on philanthropy: it is never stopped by conscience; for it has pressed conscience into its service.
~ bentham jeremy ii
He tolerated his fellow Englishmen, but the Welsh were cabbage-farting dwarves, the Scots were scabby arse-suckers, and the French were shriveled turds.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Anti-Semitism being what it is—a continuously mutating virus, an incurable form of madness
~ Bernard-Henri Levy
In The Reason for Democracy, published after his death in 1976, Kalman Silvert of New York University provided another pungent description of false patriots: "People who wrap themselves in the flag and proclaim the sanctity of the nation are usually racists, contemptuous of the poor and dedicated to keeping the community of 'ins' small and pure of blood, spirit and mind.
~ Bertram M. Gross
The one behavior that talented people seldom tolerate for long is disrespect.
~ Beverly Kaye
I don't want any gay people hanging around me while I'm killing kids. I just don't want to see it.
~ Bill Hicks
Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance
~ Bill Maher
Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.
~ Bill Maher
Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
~ Timothy Radcliffe
There's nothing more I hate than a wrestling snob.
~ Austin Aries
Alors une faculté pitoyable se développa dans leur esprit, celle de voir la bêtise et de ne plus la tolérer.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Le patron ? Un vrai juif ! Et vous savez, les juifs on ne les changera jamais. Quelle race ! Et il cita des traits étonnants d'avarice, de cette avarice particulière aux fils d'Israël, des économies de dix centimes, des marchandages de cuisinière, des rabais honteux demandés et obtenus, toute une manière d'être d'usurier, de prêteur à gages.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Pois o ódio ao Estrangeiro sempre arma alguns Intrépidos prontos a morrer por uma Ideia.
~ Guy de Maupassant
The case against the Jews is long and damning; it would justify ten thousand times as many pogroms as now go on in the world.
~ H. L. Mencken
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.
~ H.L. Mencken
Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.
~ H.L. Mencken
The Jews could be put down very plausible as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities that mark the civilized man: courage, dignity, incorruptibility, ease, confidence. They have vanity without pride, voluptuousness without taste, and learning without wisdom. Their fortitude such as it is, is wasted upon puerile objects, and their charity is mainly a form of display.
~ H.L. Mencken
Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind
~ Hanif Kureishi
If it is true that mankind has insisted on murdering Jews for more than two thousand years, then Jew-killing is a normal, and even human, occupation and Jew-hatred is justified beyond the need of argument.
~ Hannah Arendt
Extremists are relentless. They don't see right or wrong—they see us and them.
~ Harlan Coben
I realised some Lazio fans were making monkey noises whenever I touched the ball. It is impossible to know what you are supposed to do in this moment. There were times when I wanted to walk off the pitch to make a point, but then I told myself that this is exactly what they want.
~ Kalidou Koulibaly