Quotes About Intolerance

On the far left, just as there is on the far right there is a dislike of Israel, not just a dislike, a hatred of Israel.

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

I can't stand jazz.

If it was up to me, I would send the gay community, who insisted on celebrating in Jerusalem, to Sodom and Gomorrah.

Chad Curtis told me I was going to hell if I didn't believe that Jesus Christ was my lord and savior.

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.

There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.

The Jews are not merely hook-nosed but understand money instinctively.

For the anti-Semite, the problems of the world can invariably be ascribed to the Jews; for the Communist, to the capitalists.

I realized then," she told a young journalist, "that a world which is not necessarily anti-Semitic—because Hitler was denounced at the conference and there was considerable pro-Jewish sentiment—could stand by and see others who were weaker victimized…We can't depend on any others.

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it." [As quoted in The New Yorker , April 25, 2011]

The problem, however, was not with the idea of national identity itself; the problem was the narrow, ethnically based, intolerant, aggressive, and deeply illiberal form that national identity took.

The common objective of populist politicians in both Europe and the United States is to "take back our country." They argue that traditional understandings of national identity are being diluted and overtaken both by newcomers with different values and cultures and by a progressive left that attacks the very idea of national identity as racist and intolerant. But

Fin de siècle Vienna was a melting pot that had produced Gustav Mahler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Sigmund Freud. But when the empire's narrower national identities—Serbs, Bulgarians, Czechs, and Austro-Germans—asserted themselves, the region descended into a paroxysm of violence and intolerance.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Algún puto, cornudo, bujarrón y judío -dijo en altas voces- ordenó tal cosa!

el subdesarrollo mexicano se encuentra en la catástrofe educativa, en la superstición religiosa y en la intolerancia política.

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

to see a nigger you kill a nigger.

If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation.

We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.

If you wish to expel religion from our European civilization you can only do it through another system of doctrines, and from the outset this would take over all the psychological characteristics of religion, the same sanctity, rigidity, and intolerance, the same prohibition of thought in self-defense.

It's only when people believe that their beliefs are above questioning, that their beliefs alone are beyond all doubt, that they can be as truly horrible as we all know they can be.