Quotes About Intolerance

Ahí donde se queman libros, acabarán quemando personas

Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people also.

Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.

The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

Regrettably, many religious traditions exacerbate our innate proclivity to divide the world into two clearly demarcated camps, and in doing so, this fans the flames of intolerance and hate.

I still don't understand why they want to kill us all. Even if all of that is true, it doesn't make any sense to me." "It's because they define pagan as anyone who doesn't practice Islam. And, according to certain passages in the Koran, all pagans have to be converted or killed.

under his breath with rancor and unconcealed disdain. "We hold these truths, that all men are created equal!" Momin spat on the ground and swore aloud in Bengali, forever proclaiming his disagreement. "Equal? No! Shob manush shristitay shoman? Ashombhob!" They were just infidels, deserving death and destruction. The West would never be equal to Allah. And they would never turn from their Christian false god; therefore, they must die! The Koran commanded it!

A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.

Your humans slaughter each other because of the color of your skin, or your faith or your plitics -- or for no reason at all -- too many of you hate as easily as you draw breath. - Magneto

Robespierre) Bütün gücü kat?l???ndan geliyor. Her ÅŸeyde dediÄŸim dedik davranmak, hayat?n?n bütün anlam? ve biçimi oldu. Ancak böylelikle ihtilale kendi benliÄŸinin damgas?n? vurabilir ya da parçalanabilirdi. Böyle bir insan hiçbir itiraza, düÅŸüncelerde bir baÅŸka görüÅŸe katlanamaz.

When I'm in love, I can't stand anyone.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

Anyone - your daddy or mine, your ancestor or mine, your god or mine - who bays for blood of "infidels" is an a***ole. And non-divine.

The truth is considered hatred by those who hate the truth.

who refuses to distinguish between setback and catastrophe; who worships accomplishment above all else and makes himself unbearable to others because he genuinely believes he can root out and reform every incidence of human fecklessness and mediocrity.

Fascism is not just any politics you don't like. Fascism is the explicit use of political violence, hitting people, killing people, knocking people over, invading an assembly with armed thugs.

Intolerance is a form of divided consciousness in which abstract, conceptual, ideological hatred vanquishes concrete, real and individual moments of identification.

If there's one thing I can't abide it's fanatics of any kind, and religious ones are the worst of all.