Quotes About Intolerance

They will imprison you simply for who and what you are

Conspiracy thinking is all about fear-based self-protection and our intolerance for uncertainty.

Conspiracy thinking is all about fear-based self-protection and our intolerance for uncertainty. When we depend on self-protecting narratives often enough, they become our default stories

An intolerance for uncertainty is an important contributing factor to all types of anxiety. Those of us who are generally uncomfortable with uncertainty are more likely to experience anxiety in specific situations as well as to have trait anxiety and anxiety disorders. Our anxiety often leads to one of two coping mechanisms: worry or avoidance. Unfortunately, neither of these coping strategies is very effective.

An intolerance for uncertainty is an important contributing factor to all types of anxiety. Those of us who are generally uncomfortable with uncertainty are more likely to experience anxiety in specific situations as well as to have trait anxiety and anxiety disorders.

Saudi Arabia has supported Wahhabi madrasas in poor countries in Africa and Asia, exporting extremism and intolerance. Saudi Arabia also exports instability with its brutal war in Yemen, intended to check what it sees as Iranian influence.

In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'

Prejudice is an act of violence.

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.

Or as Lynn Margulis (and Dorion Sagan) once put it, "Our intolerant slogans continually denigrate the nonhuman life with which we share this planet.

Muslim extremists and their gunmen, of what could be called the Koran Kalashnikov Klan (KKK), as fanatical as white supremacists in the Ku Klux Klan, are seen as a mortal danger.

All fanatics loathe the questioning mind and fear the truth.

Alas," mused Roger Bacon, "it is not only the public which so often fails to appreciate the nature of our more delicate investigations—many of our leading churchmen are particularly lacking in the finer faculties of discernment. Led by the twin banes of intolerance and ignorance, they too often condemn where they rightly should revere. They traduce what should be championed. They denounce what should be praised.

Pogroms need no reason, sir, none that can weather challenge, in any case. Difference in kind is the first recognition, the only one needed, in fact. Land, domination, pre-emptive attacks—all just excuses, mundane justifications that do nothing but disguise the simple distinction. They are not us. We are not them.

I used to like beer, but it makes me feel slightly queasy.

I can't stand the smell of beer.

Era capaz de dar a vida para descobrir à sua volta a fealdade que traz dentro de si próprio. Para si, é essa a única maneira de sentir em paz com o mundo. Porque o mundo, que é belo, faz-lhe medo, magoa-o e repele-o sem cessar do seu centro. Intolerável, não é? Intolerável ter as unhas cheias de porcaria e uma bela mulher ao lado! Por isso, é preciso primeiro sujar a mulher para depois poder gozar.

Frank: "I wish I was ADHD or dyslexic. All I got is lactose intolerance." Percy: "Seriously?" Frank: "And I love ice cream too.

I don't believe in Jesus or God. But I do believe that fundamentalists in religion or anything else are bad, and that they have more hate than love.

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

The Smiths are singing and someone says Turn that gay angst music off.

We are plunged once again into an ethical chaos where intolerance masquerades as tolerance and where individual liberty is crushed by the tyranny of the group.

One day he came home to find her burning his collection of heavy-metal CDs, which she had taken to calling "devil wafers." She

All because my husband doesn't trust anyone with an Islamic name. Or Jews, or blacks, or Asians, or Hispanics, or Mormons, or whatever. God, it's exhausting to keep track. With my accent, I'm amazed he married me.